浙侨英频 ?Xi to deliver key speech at Boao Forum
发布时间：2022-04-22
Photo taken on April 19, 2022 shows the Boao Forum for Asia International Conference Center in Boao, South China's Hainan province. The BFA will hold its annual conference from April 20 to 22 in Boao, a coastal town in China's southernmost province of Hainan. [PhotoXinhua]
Event kicks off with report highlighting Asia's economic prospects for 2022
President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 via video link on Thursday and deliver a keynote speech, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced on Wednesday.
It will be the sixth time Xi has delivered a keynote speech at the event, held in Boao, a coastal town in southern China's Hainan province.
This year's forum opened on Wednesday with the publication of its annual report on the economic outlook for Asia and progress in integration.
It said that Asia's economic growth this year is likely to be lower than the International Monetary Fund's forecast of 5.2 percent and higher than the predicted global output growth rate of 4.4 percent.
The report said the Asian economy will remain in the process of recovery this year, and there will be moderate growth amid mounting pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions, monetary policy adjustments in the United States and Europe, and rising commodity prices.
Zhang Yuyan, director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of World Economics and Politics, said on Wednesday that the Asian economy is projected to sustain its recovery, and its annual growth rate may reach 4.8 percent this year, aided by the growth of China's economy.
Despite the resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and rising commodity prices clouding Asia's economic outlook, East and South Asian economies, such as those in China, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and India, are estimated to see a faster pace of economic recovery than the global level, said Li Baodong, secretary-general of the Boao Forum for Asia.
Asian economies will remain the ballast for the world economy and a booster for multilateral cooperation, Li added.
With the recovery of the global economy, international trade and investment resumed their growth in 2021, the report said.
Trade and investment in Asia achieved a bigger rebound in the year, and its share in global trade and investment further increased.
Citing the IMF's calculation, the report said the weighted real GDP growth of Asian economies in 2021 was 6.3 percent, significantly higher than the negative 1.3 percent growth in 2020 and also higher than the global level. In terms of purchasing power parity, Asian economies' share of global GDP will continue to grow to 47.7 percent in 2022.
The report said Asian economic integration will be accelerated by the recent coming into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which is the world's largest trade agreement, involving 15 economies — all 10 members of ASEAN, as well as China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, it said that China's and South Korea's applications to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership will accelerate regional economic integration in Asia in the post-COVID-19 era.
Fueled by continued liberalization and facilitation, trade and investment in Asia are expected to maintain their growth momentum in 2022.
In Asia, China is seen as a stabilizer in regional trade, contributing significantly to the recovery of the Asian economy, the report said.
Sang Baichuan, an economics professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, highlighted China's faster-than-expected 4.8 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2022 despite a weakening in economic activities in March amid resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases, saying that this demonstrates the strong resilience of China's economy.
However, he warned of the gap between first-quarter growth and China's annual growth target of around 5.5 percent for 2022, saying that more efforts should be made to control the virus, step up macroeconomic policy support and increase support for businesses.
Zhang Ying, president of Dassault Systemes Greater China, said the French industrial software company has seen the resilience and innovative vitality of China's economy. We remain firm in our confidence in the Chinese market. External changes will not affect Dassault Systemes' investment plans in China, he said.
China's economic development and continued reform and opening-up will create many new opportunities for foreign companies, including Dassault Systemes. This year, Dassault Systemes hopes to deepen cooperation with more Chinese companies.
Themed The World in COVID-19 & Beyond Working Together for Global Development and Shared Future, the Boao Forum for Asia is expected to focus on international unity and global cooperation, with a key focus on post-pandemic development as well as green, innovative, inclusive development and collaborative development.
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习近平将出席博鳌亚洲论坛2022年年会开幕式
国家主席习近平于4月21日应邀以视频方式出席博鳌亚洲论坛2022年年会开幕式并发表主旨演讲。
以色列总统赫尔佐格、蒙古国总统呼日勒苏赫、尼泊尔总统班达里、菲律宾总统杜特尔特、哈萨克斯坦总理斯迈洛夫、老挝总理潘坎、国际货币基金组织总裁格奥尔基耶娃等外国领导人和国际组织负责人将应邀以视频方式出席年会。
在20日举行的博鳌亚洲论坛2022年年会首场新闻发布会上，《亚洲经济前景及一体化进程》和《可持续发展的亚洲与世界》2022年度报告正式发布。中国社科院世界经济与政治研究所所长张宇燕代表报告研究团队预测，2022年亚洲经济增速将达到4.8%。
报告认为，2021年，亚洲在全球疫情下实现了率先复苏，成为全球经济增长的重要引擎。按购买力平价标准计算，2021年亚洲经济占世界经济总量的比重提高至47.4%。
博鳌亚洲论坛秘书长李保东说，亚洲国家克服疫情冲击、多边规则失序等重重障碍，坚定推进区域经济一体化，寻求实现全方位、宽领域的合作共赢，为全球化提供新思路，为多边主义提供重要支撑。
报告指出，受新冠肺炎疫情发展态势、俄乌冲突后的地缘政治局势、美欧货币政策调整节奏与力度、部分国家债务问题、关键初级产品供应和部分国家政府换届等因素影响，2022年亚洲经济增速或将有所放缓，但仍将高于世界经济平均增速。
报告认为，中国提出的全球发展倡议，为亚洲和全球消除发展赤字、凝聚发展共识提出了新方案。作为亚洲最大经济体和发展中国家，中国成为疫情后世界经济复苏以及亚洲经济一体化的中坚力量。
对外经济贸易大学教授桑百川表示，刚刚发布的一季度经济数据显示，中国GDP同比增长4.8%，高于去年四季度4%的增速，开局总体平稳。从宏观经济数据上看，中国经济韧性十足、长期趋势向好的态势不变。
报告还重点探讨了四大热点议题，即中国提出的全球发展倡议如何助力亚洲国家缩减发展赤字，亚洲各国如何平衡好应对气候变化、实现绿色转型和推动经济增长，美欧货币政策正常化会对亚洲国家带来哪些溢出效应，以及区域全面经济伙伴关系协定（RCEP）正式生效后怎样促进亚洲经济一体化并推动未来国际经贸规则改革。
博鳌亚洲论坛2022年年于4月20日至22日在海南博鳌举行，今年年会主题为“疫情与世界：共促全球发展，构建共同未来”。
来源新华社