The year 2014 marks the first year for China to fully carry out the resolutions in the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, as well as the outset of comprehensively deepening reform. As important and arduous as the reform is, the Chinese government will launch a series of major reform measures in 2014.

The international community is keen to know how China becomes more open-minded to promote reforms in a more systematic, integrated and concerted way based on its national conditions, and to lay a solid foundation for its construction of socialist modernization.

As the first large-scale and high-profile international conference right after the National People's Congress (NPC) and the the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in each year, CDF has been sticking to the principle of “Engaging with the world for the common prosperity” and serves as an important platform for Chinese government to carry out candid exchanges and discussions with global business elites, leaders of international organizations as well as foreign and Chinese renowned scholars. Initiated in 2000, CDF has made remarkable contributions for the policy exchange and international collaborations between China and the world.