BEIJING Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Black , Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Amid mixed economic outlook for 2014, the upcoming annual World Economic Forum (WEF) hoped to provide world leaders with a long-term strategic view, said a regional WEF chief here Wednesday.
"We do not have a single crisis that dominates the world in 2014... What we are hoping to achieve is to provide leaders with a long-term, strategic thinking which runs contrary to the very much crisis-driven thinking, fire fighting thinking and mentality which have dominated since the financial crisis in 2008 Cheap Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit 2018 ," said Olivier Schwab, executive director of the WEF Bejing Representative office, at a press briefing.
Schwab said that the forum's annual meeting next week would have 2,500 participants, including 1 Cheap Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Womens ,500 business leaders, more than 40 heads of state and 300 public figures, making WEF the world's largest gathering of governments and ministers.
"I think one of the things here I would like to highlight is that we have a significant increase in business participating percentage from the previous years and we believe that this is due to the particular need for business leaders to understand what is going on in the world today," he said.
Another prominent change at this year's gathering, he said Cheap Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Mens , was the increase in China factors. The WEF has invited more than 100 participants from China and arranged seven China-related sessions on its agenda.
Hailing China's reform program as a positive way to increase its competitiveness, Schwab said the global community had very much welcomed the reforms.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's briefing witnessed the release of WEF's Outlook on the Global Agenda, which ranks the widening income gap and structural unemployment as two of the Top 10 trends for world leaders to address in 2014.
The outlook report also includes failing confidence in economic policies, tensions in the Middle East and North Africa and inaction on climate change in the Top 10.
Based in Geneva Cheap Nike Air Vapormax 2018 , WEF is an international nongovernmental organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industrial agendas.
The forum, initially known as the European Management Forum, was founded by Klaus M. Schwab