China's strong determination to persist with reform and opening-up will usher in more prosperity for its 1.3 billion population and also benefit the rest of the world, scholars said at a forum over the weekend.
The Ninth 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum opened on Monday in Boao, Hainan province, gathering around 100 media representatives to discuss new ideas and new focus for win-win cooperation in East Asia.
The 2018 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road was held in Boao, Hainan on Oct 30.
Hainan's Boao International Hospital has appointed Professor Michael Morris Rosbash, a US geneticist and biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017, as the honorary chief scientist on Oct 23.
China is playing a prominent role in supporting globalization and in fulfilling its global responsibility as rising protectionism and challenges affect the world order formed after World War II, scholars said.
Haikou was honored as one of the first group of international wetland cities at the 13th Conference of the Parties to the International Convention on Wetlands held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on Oct 25.
Hainan's first internet plus poverty alleviation common wealth website (www.hainanfp.com) achieved a trade volume of over 1.12 million yuan ($161,300) within nine days since it began operations on Oct 16.
