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The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, met some of the country’s main businessmen on Monday, since Beijing seeks to revitalize private businesses and assume the economy.
XI gave an “important speech” in the forum in the Chinese capital after listening to comments from the business community, according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.
Xinhua published a photo that shows Lei Jun, founder of the Xiaomi Technology Group, Robin Zeng, founder and president of the main manufacturer of Batteries Catl, and Wang Xing, founder of the food delivery giant Meituan, among the business leaders in the event.
It was expected that the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma and the president of Tencent, Pony Ma also attend.
Beijing has been working to improve the business environment and boost economic growth. China previously fought a campaign of years to control the influence of large technology companies, which contributed to the fall in trust among business leaders.
MA became the decorative figure of Beijing’s technological repression, and has been absent to a large extent of public opinion after the dramatic intervention of Beijing at the end of 2020 to cancel the initial public financial offer of ants. His inclusion at Monday’s meeting would be a symbolic measure of Beijing to affirm a more positive inclination in the private sector.
China’s slow economy has weighed in many private companies, with executives who face intensified scrutiny about accusations of corruption and a series of arrests by local authorities.
The appearance of pioneering artificial intelligence models of the New Deepseek company has helped renew the external interest in Chinese technology, and turned on a bullish market At the main point of reference for Chinese technology.
XI has used previous forums with business leaders to promise tax cuts and a leveling playing field with state companies.