The Blue Hall Forum on "Chinese-style Modernization and the World" was held in Shanghai on April 4. Topic: "Advancing with Hope" and Eliminating the "21 Centimeters of Barriers" in People-to-People Exchanges.

Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, threw out a "strange" question about the height of the basketball basket. Language is no longer the biggest obstacle to people- to-people exchanges, Yuan Ming, honorary dean of Peking University's Yenching Academy said.