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.
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.
China released on Tuesday a plan to build Hainan into a pilot free trade zone-including substantial relaxation of market access for foreign companies and upgrading of trade facilitation-to create a gateway for opening up toward the Pacific and the Indian oceans.
China on Tuesday released a plan to build its southern province Hainan into a pilot free trade zone after the central government announced in April it would support Hainan in establishing a free trade zone and would gradually build it into a free trade port.
The "one million talents recruitment of Hainan province" promotional conference, sponsored by the Hong Kong Federation of Hainan Community Organizations and the Hong Kong Hainan Youth Federation, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Oct 9.
Hainan has signed investment and cooperation agreements with more than 60 leading Chinese and overseas companies since April 13, when the central government announced it would support Hainan to build a free trade zone and gradually build it into a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, according to officials with the Hainan Provincial Bureau of Commerce.