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The Bo'ao Forum for Asia (BFA), the first international conference organization to be based in China, will hold its second annual conference from May 18 to 19 in Bo'ao, a resort town in south China's Hainan province.
The conference, with the theme "Asia searching for mutual development through cooperation," would focus on major economic issues such as establishing free trade areas and international cooperation in energy, agriculture, tourism and human resources, said Fidel Ramos, former president of the Philippines and now chairman of the BFA Friday.
Ramos said that about 800 delegates would attend the conference, including state leaders of Asian countries, business leaders and academics.
The BFA, a non-official international organization focusing on major economic issues, would continue to be a high-level forum for governmental officials, business people and academics to discuss Asia's development strategies, said Long Yongtu, newly-elected BFA secretary-general and Chinese vice-minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
More than 1,000 delegates, including Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Lee Han-dong and Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra attended the BFA's first annual conference held in Bo'ao in April 2002.
(Xinhua News Agency January 25, 2003)
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