Chinese state broadcaster CCTV announced that President Xi Jinping will meet Bill Gates in Beijing on Friday.
Xi’s first international entrepreneur summit in years. China’s pandemic ban prevented him from traveling abroad for nearly three years. Reuters reported meeting plans.
The Microsoft (MSFT.O) co-founder and philanthropist spoke at the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute on Wednesday, his first visit to Beijing since 2019.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Beijing municipal government, which formed the center alongside Tsinghua University, donated $50 million to boost drug research.
In 2020, Gates left Microsoft’s board to focus on global health, education, and climate change.
Xi and Gates last met in 2015 on the sidelines of the Boao Summit in Hainan province. In early 2020, Xi wrote to Gates to thank him and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for providing $5 million for China’s COVID-19 fight.
Since China reopened this year, many international CEOs have met with Chinese ministers.
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