A total of eight of AIBA's Commissions are meeting at Old Trafford, the home of Premier League Manchester United, during the next two days and at the end are expected to proposed a series of recommendations.

These will be considered by the AIBA's ruling Executive Committee at a meeting in july.

"Everyone is very enthusiastic about making progress," Wu told insidethegames following the first day's meetings. 

"Many are giving their vision for the future development of boxing.

"We want to collect as many ideas as possible.

"There's a good representation here for this meeting and I am sure there will be many interesting things for us to consider at the end of the meeting."

The meeting is being held in England to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the formation of AIBA following a decision by the English Amateur Boxing Association and French Boxing Federation to form the new governing body.

"It is very special to be back here in England to celebrate such an important anniversary," said Wu.

The items to be discussed are expected to include whether professional boxers should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and the future of headguards.

Wu hopes that the International Olympic Committee will decide at its next Executive Board meeting, due to take place in Lausanne between March 1 and 3, to back his plan for male boxers to fight without headguards at Rio 2016. 

It would be the first time boxers will have taken part at the Olympics without wearing headguards since Moscow 1980.

Wu will present three years of scientific analysis  to the IOC, including from the last two World Championships, which took place without boxers using headguards. 

"The evidence is very strong," said Wu.