A session titled "The Distance between Metaverse and Us" drew great attention at the 2022 Boao Forum for Asia, which was held from April 20 to 22 in south China's Hainan Province. Guests at the session touched on topics such as opportunities, risks and future governance of the metaverse, and how the development technology can create more application scenarios of the metaverse. CGTN's Guo Meiping attended the session.