China News Agency, Davos, January 20 (Reporter De Yongjian) The 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Davos Forum) will close on the 20th.
In the face of multiple crises such as geopolitics, energy, climate change, and food security, we call for "turning crises into opportunities" through cooperation and innovation.
At noon on the 20th local time, Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, delivered a closing speech, announcing the end of the Davos Forum.
According to the announcement released later in the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, this year's forum held more than 480 meetings, and more than 2,700 "leading figures" participated in the meeting, including 47 heads of government.
The term "polycrisis" is very popular at this forum.
United Nations Secretary-General Guterres said in a speech at the forum on the 18th that the world today is in the eye of a "category 5 hurricane" storm, which is hit by a "perfect storm" in many ways, such as the bleak global economic outlook and the continued impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. , conflicts, violence and wars have not abated.
In this regard, the forum announcement stated that complex crises require complex solutions, and this forum emphasizes the connection between major systemic challenges.
The announcement quoted Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, as saying that through cooperation, innovation, friendship, originality and other forces, challenges can be turned into opportunities. This spirit of mutual respect and cooperation to solve problems is "Davao". The Spirit of Adams".
Specifically, the announcement shows that the forum has reached consensus or cooperation intentions on a series of issues such as investment, trade, climate change, energy, and geopolitical cooperation. swaying the global economy, but food, energy and inflationary pressures remain faint hopes of peaking and fading.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, this year's Davos Forum was held as usual in the middle of winter in January for the first time this year, marking the return of the forum to "on track".
However, due to the bleak global economic outlook, rising cost of living, climate change and other issues, the atmosphere of this forum is more serious than before. Environmental protection groups outside the venue have repeatedly criticized the participants for "taking private jets to discuss climate change".
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