Integration key to Asia's sustained economic recovery, Boao report says By CHEN JIA,OUYANG SHIJIA and MA ZHIPING in Boao, Hainan | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-19 07:08 Share CLOSE Workers give out brochures for the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference to participants at the event's registration center in Boao, Hainan province, on Sunday. [Photo by Feng Yongbin/China Daily] The Asian economy is projected to sustain recovery, and its annual growth rate may exceed 6.5 percent this year, as integration in regional trade strengthens, according to a key report issued on Sunday. The COVID-19 pandemic will be the main factor directly affecting the economic activities in Asia, but the value chain is converging to China, thanks to the advanced regional integration of trade in goods and services, according to the flagship report of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021. The forum opened on Sunday in Boao, a coastal town in China's southern Hainan province.