Dubbed the Bo'Ao Blockchain Forum for Asia (not to be confused with the Bo'Ao Forum), the two-day event in Hainan province is co-hosted by a Chinese blockchain and cryptocurrency media firm BiKuai.org and kicked off Monday as scheduled.
Yet within hours of the start, a video emerged on Chinese social networks Weibo and WeChat showing an actor hired by the event organizer mimicking China's most famous leader Mao Zedong in a welcome speech.
The actor, named Xu Guoxiang, said:
"In the name of Mao Zedong, I'd like to say thank you to all the attendees today ... And I wish the event will be tremendously successful."
The video immediately went viral across Chinese social networks, although various reports and reposts of the video and event appear to have since been be censored by the state.
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