Participants attend the press conference of the 2021 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference and the launch of annual reports in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, April 18, 2021. The BFA's annual conference runs from April 18 to 21 in south China's island province of Hainan. This year's annual conference will be mainly held offline with the addition of online features as part of ongoing COVID-19 prevention and control efforts, with over 2,600 delegates expected to participate in person, making it the world's first large-scale international conference to be held this year in predominantly offline forms. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)
