The 2023 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum opened on the 16th in Davos, a small town in the eastern part of Switzerland. This is the first time that the annual meeting of the forum has been held offline in winter since the outbreak of COVID-19. The theme of this annual meeting is "Strengthening cooperation in a divided world", which will last until the 20th. The annual meeting gathered about 2700 political, business, academic and media representatives from around the world, focusing on how to deal with the food and energy crisis, how to deal with high inflation, low growth and high debt, how to deal with industrial recession, how to deal with social vulnerability, and how to deal with geopolitical risks. In an exclusive interview with reporters from Xinhua News Agency, the President of the World Economic Forum, Brende, said that this year's global recession risks are from war, trade protectionism, climate change, etc. This annual meeting is held against the background of the most complex geopolitical and economic conflicts in decades. Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, said before the annual meeting that under the influence of political, economic and social forces, the polarization at the global and national levels is intensifying. In order to fundamentally solve the problem of trust damage, the government and enterprises need to strengthen cooperation to create conditions for a strong and lasting recovery. At the same time, we must improve the resilience and sustainability of economic development and ensure that all people can participate. The World Economic Forum is an unofficial international organization with the purpose of studying and discussing the problems in the world economic field and promoting international economic cooperation and exchange. Its predecessor was the "European Management Forum" founded by Schwab in 1971. In 1987, the European Management Forum was renamed the World Economic Forum. (Xinhua News Agency)