2018年CRI Summer Davos to kick off in Tianjin

 

The 12th Summer Davos Forum¹ will kick off later on Tuesday in Tianjin. The theme of this year's meeting is "Shaping Innovative² Societies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution".

More than 2,000 politicians, businesspeople, scholars and media representatives from about 90 countries are expected to attend.

Established by the World Economic Forum in 2007, the Summer Davos Forum is an annual event in China, alternating between the two port cities-Tianjin and Dalian.

To give us a run down on the topics that will be discussed during this year's Summer Davos, the Beijing Hour's Shane Bigham spoke³ earlier with CRI's reporter Li Yi, who is at the forum in Tianjin.

1 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

2 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。