Over 1,400 Personalities to Attend Bo'ao Forum for Asia

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Over 1,400 Personalities to Attend Bo'ao Forum for Asia

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More than 1,400 government officials, academic celebrities and business people will gather inBo'ao, a town in south China's Hainan Province from April 12 to 13for the first annual session of the Bo'ao Forum for Asia (BFA).

Zhang Xiang, acting secretary general of the BFA, announced at a press conference in Beijing Tuesday that Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand, Prime Minister Lee Han-dong of the Republic of Korea and Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Manh Cam will be among those attending the meeting.

The chief executives of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, Tung Chee-hwa and Edmund Ho Hau Wah, will also lead delegations to the meeting.

Also attending will be former presidents or heads of governmentfrom the Philippines, Australia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Nepal and Kazakstan and senior officials from the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank as well as representatives from about 100 world top companies, said Zhang.

"The meeting will be a 'grand gathering of a thousand people', from government bodies, and academic and business circles," Zhang said. "The fact that so many people are coming to the meeting shows that the forum has wide support."

The theme of the annual meeting has been set as "New Century, New Challenges, New Asia -- the Economic Cooperation and Development of Asia."

Participants will discuss a wide range of issues, relating to regional cooperation, industrial development, the economic development of different nations, the facilitation of trade and investment in Asia, financial cooperation in Asia, energy, telecommunications, the manufacturing industry and export competition.

The BFA, established in February 2001, is the first non-governmental, non-profit international organization to be based inChina.

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