Intl. contestants shine at final of IoT competition

Standing out of 229 international projects in the fi eld of Internet of Things (IoT), 13 innovative projects from the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Canada and Sweden had their fi nal showdown in Bao’an District yesterday

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A food delivery man defeated a master from Peking University and won China Central Television’s poetry contest

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The Aurora Station, the world’s fi rst luxury space hotel, plans to launch into space in 2021 and open to guests in 2022

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Patrick Reed, a resident of Spring, Texas, became famous playing for his country. He won for himself Sunday at the Masters

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There’s no apparent point to the British musical “Cats,” and since its 1981 debut, it has done little in the way of modernization, but when it opened in Shenzhen last weekend, its energy, verve and choreographic vigor hadn’t aged a bit

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(L-R) Victor Fung Kwok-king, chairman of Li & Fung Group, Fan Gang, head of Shenzhen-based China Development Institute, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Macao Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac, former Hong Kong Financial Secretary Antony Leung Kam-chung, and Guangdong Governor Ma Xingrui attend the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area panel discussion during the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in Boao, Hainan Province, yesterday. China News Service

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THE 2018 edition of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), also known as Asia’s Davos, has drawn wide-spread media attention ahead of President Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the opening ceremony of this year’s conference, which will happen today.

The four-day event themed “An Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Prosperity” is being held in the southern Chi-nese island province Hainan.

“All eyes are on Mr. Xi’s address at the Boao Forum” after State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last week that Xi will announce new measures to expand reform and opening up “that launched China’s economic boom,” the Singapore-based paper The Straits Times said yesterday.

“Mr. Xi set out his defense of globalization at the World Eco-nomic Forum in Davos last year,” Bloomberg news said Sunday.

In a commentary, Bloomberg

said Xi will deliver his speech at the BFA dedicated to “reassuring the hundreds of foreign investors present that U.S. protection-ism won’t produce the same in the world’s second-largest economy.”

In a commentary titled “Xi to present market-opening moves at Boao Forum,” Japanese fi nancial newspaper Nikkei Asian Review said Saturday that “as this year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s landmark economic reforms, which opened the coun-try to the world, international attention is focused on how Xi plans to steer the reform effort from here.”

“It was fi tting, therefore, that Xi should use the occasion to assure the world that China remains open for business,” the Hong Kong-based South China Morn-ing Post said Sunday.

The forum will be attended by more than 2,000 political and economic leaders, including

the heads of large multinational companies, both Chinese and international.

Also yesterday, former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was elected chairman of BFA, replacing former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong was appointed BFA secretary-general, said a state-ment released after the meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors of BFA yesterday.

Former central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan was designated as China’s chief representative to BFA. According to the BFA Char-ter, Zhou is ex-offi cio member of the Board of Directors and vice chair of BFA.

Of the 19-member BFA Board of Directors, 12 are newly elected, including Ban, Zhou and Li. Other new directors are former senior government offi cials, business leaders, or other eminent persons from Asia and around the world.

Proposed in 1998 by former Philippine President Fidel Ramos, former Australia Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and former Japa-nese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, BFA was formally inaugurated Feb. 27, 2001.

Boao has been the permanent venue for its annual conference since 2002.

After 17 years of development, BFA has become a high-level dia-logue platform for governments, enterprises, experts, scholars and business leaders to jointly discuss the economy, society, environ-ment, new high-tech, innovation, fi nancial reforms, investment, trade and other issues essential to the future of Asia.

It also offers a signifi cant plat-form for other countries to better understand China’s diplomacy as well as China’s initiatives such as the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

(Xinhua)