China Focus: Experts share views on Chinese modernization at Boao

BOAO, Hainan, March 29 (Xinhua) -- At a sideline event on Chinese modernization held on Wednesday at the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference, heated discussions took place between guests from home and abroad.

British scholar Martin Jacques used to get frustrated when he saw streets in Beijing or Shanghai full of American Buicks, or Japanese Toyotas and Hondas. "I would literally walk around trying to count the number of Chinese brands," he said at the event. He had not been to China for three years prior to this trip to the BFA forum, which is scheduled to run from March 28 to 31 in Boao, a coastal town on China's island province of Hainan.