This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Boao Forum for Asia. Over the past 20 years, the forum's scale and influence have grown considerably, and it has played a major role in strengthening regional cooperation and solving Asian and global issues. With the world undergoing a century of great changes, how can China and the rest of Asia cooperate with each other to find new opportunities amid these changes? And, how can the global economy be reshaped in a post-pandemic era? 

To find out more, CGTN talked with Leslie Maasdorp, Vice President and CFO of the New Development Bank; and Professor Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics, who was also named as one of China's 40 most influential foreign experts by the country's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs in 2018.