Ban Ki-moon, Zhou Xiaochuan, Yukio Hatoyama... More than 2,600 Chinese and foreign guests attended the event

On the morning of October 18, the press conference of the first session of the Boao Forum for Asia "Global Economic Development and Security Forum" (hereinafter referred to as the "Economic and Security Conference") was held at the Changsha International Convention Center. Li Baodong, Secretary General of the Boao Forum for Asia, Zeng Weixiong, Chairman of the Economic and Social Security Conference, Xie Weijiang, Vice Governor of Hunan Province, and Zheng Jianxin, Mayor of Changsha City, attended the press conference and made speeches.

Li Baodong introduced the background and connotation of the establishment of the "Global Economic Development and Security Forum" and expressed the expectations of the conference for building a new platform for international development cooperation, improving new rules for global economic governance, and gathering new momentum for development.

Zeng Weixiong introduced the agenda of the conference, emphasizing that the theme and topic setting of the first global economic development and security conference are closely related to the current development trend of the world economy and highlighting risks and challenges, and jointly discuss how to coordinate the major issue of the times of "development and security" for all parties.

Safety and development are two wings of one body and two wheels of drive. Overall development and security is a profound summary of the experience of the rise and fall of major powers in history, a profound summary of the experience of promoting socialist modernization over the past 70 -odd years since the founding of New China, and a major principle for the party to govern the country in the new era. Xie Weijiang said that Hunan will take this conference as an opportunity to adhere to the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the overall national security concept, based on the "two overall situations" and the greatness of the country, based on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, adhere to the responsibility of guarding the soil, shouldering the responsibility of guarding the soil, and fulfilling the responsibility of guarding the land, strengthen the sense of distress, risk awareness, and bottom-line thinking, do a solid job in the "six stability" work, fully implement the "six guarantees" task, and promote the stable and healthy operation of the economy and social harmony and stability. Contribute to the maintenance and shaping of national security in Hunan.

Zheng Jianxin said that Changsha has always adhered to the overall development and safety in an important position, as a strategic consideration to promote high-quality development, focusing on "three wisdoms and one core", deeply cultivating intelligent manufacturing, closely focusing on 22 industrial emerging and advantageous industrial chains "building chains, extending chains, supplementing chains, strong chains", and striving to achieve independent controllability and safety and stability of the industrial chain supply chain, and the construction of the industrial chain has been praised by the State Council; it is committed to building Longping's "Seed Industry Silicon Valley" and making Changsha contributions to maintaining the safety of the national and even world grain and seed industries. Especially since last year, the scientific response to the new crown epidemic has achieved a stage victory in epidemic prevention and control, and the city's economic operation has been strengthened, steadily advanced, and stable. "As the organizer of the conference, Changsha will make every effort to provide thoughtful and meticulous services for the guests, and comprehensively display the level of Changsha's organization and the image of the city."

The Boao Forum for Asia "Global Economic Development and Security Forum" is the first international theme forum focusing on economic development and non-traditional security issues. Jointly organized by the Boao Forum for Asia and the Hunan Provincial Government, hosted by the Organizing Committee of the Conference and the Changsha Municipal Government, the theme of the conference is "Economic Security and Sustainable Development under the Great Changes", the conference will last for 3 days, during which the Economic Development and Security Expo, the Plenary Session, the Symposium of Chinese and Foreign Entrepreneurs, the Meeting of Provincial and Municipal Leaders and Envoys in China, the Opening Ceremony, the Youth Roundtable and other important activities and 22 sub-forums, covering the "Belt and Road", food security, energy supply and security, digital technology, financial risks, Network security, industrial chain supply chain security, coordinated urban-rural development, employment security, public health risks, carbon neutrality, ecological security, security technology, smart city and so on.

During the three-day session, more than 2,600 guests from all over the world will attend the conference, and many other guests will participate in the discussion of the conference in an online mode to participate in this feast of ideas. Zhang Qingli, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will attend the opening ceremony of the first "Global Economic Development and Security Forum" held on the afternoon of October 19 and deliver a speech to expound China's policy propositions on promoting global economic development and security.

Mr. Turck, former President of Slovenia, served as the honorary chairman of the first congress, and Mr. Zeng Weixiong, deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Commission of China and vice president of the Chinese Police Association, served as the chairman of the conference. Heavyweight guests attending the conference online and offline also included Ban Ki-moon, chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia and former secretary-general of the United Nations, Zhou Xiaochuan, former prime minister of Russia, Zubkov, former prime minister of France, former Prime Minister of Finland Aho, former prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce of Thailand Lhasa Nawisi, former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Thailand Suraj, Minister of Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland, Minister of Development, Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland, Ramilison, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Madagascar, Philippine Agriculture Secretary Dahl, Senegal Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation Ott, Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority Chairman Mansour, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez, etc.

This session of the Economic and Social Security Conference provides a platform for in-depth discussions and effective plans and suggestions on various security issues faced by economic development at home and abroad, and also creates opportunities for Hunan and Changsha to further open the window of opening up to the outside world, improve the depth and breadth of foreign exchanges, promote the integration of Hunan and Changsha into the globalized economy, and achieve high-quality development. The convening of the economic and social security conference has provided a stage for all walks of life to tell the story of China, Hunan and Changsha, and promote local enterprises to go global. At the same time, the major achievements of the reform and opening up of Hunan and Changsha have also provided experiences and methods for the economic development of other regions, and are an important contribution to the theme of "economic security and sustainable development under the great changes" within the framework of the forum.

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