PM Abbasi to arrive for BFA annual meeting in China on Sunday

BEIJING, Apr 6 (APP):Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will arrive in Sanya, the southernmost city on China’s Hainan Island, on
Sunday to attend Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual meeting.
“The prime minister will be accompanied by Foreign Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Interior Minister Ahsan
Iqbal and Minister for Power Awais Khan Leghari,” according to official sources here on Friday.
Besides addressing the annual meeting, the prime minister will hold a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping
and discuss a range of bilateral, regional and global issues.
The prime minister has been invited to attend this year’s meeting to be held on April 8-11 under the theme “An
Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Prosperity”.
Other attendees include Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,
Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands, Singaporean
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and International Monetary Fund
Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
All the leaders will discuss bilateral, multilateral practical cooperation, global governance, economy and trade.
And they will build a new consensus and produce new outcome.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote speech at the forum, and new measures to further open up
the Chinese economy, will also be announced.
The forum would showcase China’s progress in reform and opening up, and the over 2,000 attendees will
“hear a series of new opening-up measures that China will take as a vision for the future.
This year’s annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) will highlight themes of reform, opening up and
innovation.
Scheduled in Boao, a coastal town in China’s southern island province of Hainan, the conference will be
themed “An Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Prosperity”.
In addition to China’s opening up policy, this year’s forum will also focus on Asia’s integration and
China’s stance on building a community with a shared future for Asia and humanity.
The BFA will launch three reports, which will focus on the integration of Asian economies, the
emerging economy and Asia’s competitiveness respectively in an effort to promote Asian countries’
joint development.
As 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up drive, the conference will also
focus on structural reform. Founded in 2001, the BFA is a non-governmental and non-profit international
organization committed to promoting regional economic integration and bringing Asian countries closer to
their development goals.