President Xi to attend opening ceremony of 2015 Boao Forum

Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 2015 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in late March.

The event is scheduled to run from March 26 to 29 in the scenic town of Boao, south China's Hainan province, while the opening ceremony will take place on March 28.

BFA Secretary General Zhou Wenzhong briefed the media on Tuesday on the preparations for the event.

The annual meeting, themed "Asia's New Future: Toward a Community of Common Destiny", will discuss macro economy, regional development, industry transformation, technological innovation, politics and security.

At the forum, China is also expected to release the implementation plan for the Belt and Road initiatives, an ambitious trans-Eurasia and across-ocean trade strategy.

This year's meeting, for the first time in the forum's history, puts agriculture, judiciary and religion on its wide-ranging agenda.

It also has sessions on new growth drivers amid the weak global economic recovery, China's anti-corruption drive, along with the fight against HIV, Ebola, smog and their impact on human health.

It is expected that over 80 senior government officials, 65 chairmen of boards and CEOs and 132 regional managers across Asia from Fortune Global 500 companies will attend the forum.

Internet giants such as Baidu, Tencent, Sina and JD.com will have cross-field dialogues with counterparts in finance or the real estate industry.