Ban Ki-moon elected chairman of BFA's board of directors

Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) on Monday.

Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor of the People's Bank of China, has become China's chief representative and the vice chairman at the forum.

Li Baodong, vice minister of Foreign Affairs, has been elected secretary-general.

This year's BFA was held from April 8 to 11 in Boao, a town in the southern island province of Hainan in China.