This year’s Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference officially concluded on March 29, after four days of heated discussions among representatives from across the globe on Asia’s development strategies for 2024 and beyond.
Amid a wide spectrum of trending topics, a novel concept stood out in this year’s agenda: new quality productive forces.
But the concept was not just a buzzword that randomly made its way into almost every BFA panel.
Over the past few months, it has become a key phrase in China’s economic lexicon that has set out to permeate every aspect of everyday life and reshape the country’s economic landscape in profound ways.
Switching gears
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