In a global context of geopolitical wrangling and lingering pandemic impacts such as supply chain disruptions, state leaders, government officials and heads of international organizations, as well as scholars and entrepreneurs from the world over, gathered on China’s tropical island province of Hainan for the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference—a meeting of minds that took place entirely offline once again from March 28 to 31. The previous two editions of the event occurred both online and offline due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the 2020 annual conference was canceled altogether.
The BFA takes its name from the town of Boao, once just a small fishing village in Hainan, which has been the permanent venue for the annual conference since 2001. Committed to promoting regional economic integration, this year’s edition, themed An Uncertain World: Solidarity and Cooperation for Development Amid Challenges, again set out to offer the world an Asian vision for shared prosperity.
