The Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference has also started up its media center.This year's forum has attracted a record high number of media organizations and journalists from both home and abroad. Just over two hundred and thirty media organizations and around seventeen-hundred journalists have registered for this year's forum. Of those, more than one hundred media outlets are from foreign countries. Foreign media organizations are mainly focused on China's Belt and Road Initiative and opening-up policies. There are 50-percent more registered journalists than last year, almost close to the total number of guests invited to the forum.