On July 6^th, the thematic forum of Global Digital Economy Conference 2023 on “Building Smart Cities in a Changing World”, hosted by the Organizing Committee of Global Digital Economy Conference, and co-organized by Harbor Overseas, iGCU, Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, was held at Peking University.

The Forum is one of the highest-level digital economy conferences in China. Senior practitioners and renowned scholars worldwide actively participated in the event and shared their observations and thoughts on the building of smart cities all around the globe.

In today's episode, we will be listening to the keynote speech delivered by His Excellency Djoomart Otorbaev (former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan and visiting Senior Fellow of iGCU). Mr. Otorbaev's perceptions of the concept of modernization as well as his understanding of contemporary smart cities were shared during the event.

Let's check out the speech of Mr. Otorbaev at the thematic forum of the Global Digital Economy Conference 2023 on “Building Smart Cities in a Changing World”.