Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 2015 Boao Forum1 for Asia (BFA) in south China in March, BFA Secretary-General Zhou Wenzhong announced Tuesday.
博鳌亚洲论坛秘书长周文重周二宣布,中国国家主席习近平将在2015年博鳌亚洲论坛开幕典礼上做专题演讲。此次会议将于三月份在华南召开。
The event is
slated2 from March 26 to 29 in the
scenic3 town of Boao on south China's tropical island province of Hainan, while the opening ceremony will take place on March 28, Zhou said at a press briefing.
The annual meeting, on the theme "Asia's New Future: Toward a Community of Common Destiny", will discuss macroeconomy, regional development, industry
transformation4,
technological5 innovation, politics and security.
This year's meeting, for the first time in BFA history, puts agriculture, judiciary and religion on its wide-ranking agenda.
It also has sessions on new growth drivers amid the weak global economic recovery, China's campaign against
corruption6 and HIV, SARS, Ebola, smog and their impact on human health.
A non-governmental and non-profit international organization founded in 2001, the BFA works to promote regional economic
integration7 and bring Asian countries closer to their development goals.