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China’s Power Elite: A Guide to the Tech Kingpins Who Met Xi Jinping
R arely have so many Chinese billionaires gathered in one place as happened this week in Beijing, when leader Xi Jinping summoned the nation’s top entrepreneurs and CEOs from te
Xi Jinping gave China's big tech companies a personal stamp of approval
At the Monday meeting, Xi urged the executives to "show their talent" and pledged to support private businesses.
President Xi Jinping Meets China’s Top Tycoons In Rare Show Of Support
President Xi Jinping met some of China’s most prominent tycoons, sending what analysts say is the strongest signal of support in years to companies like web giants Alibaba and Tencent.
China's Xi Jinping to hold high-level meeting on Monday with top tech entrepreneurs
Chinese President Xi Jinping will host a meeting next week with some of the nation's top entrepreneurs - including six Hangzhou-based start-ups known as the "Six Little Dragons" - to recognise progress in critical areas of technological advancement and show support to the private sector,
China’s unspoken question: who will succeed Xi Jinping?
The Chinese leader enjoys complete domination of party and state. But to maintain stability, he also needs to signal a succession process is in place.
Xi Jinping’s U-turn on tech
Diane Brady on Xi Jinping’s turn toward the tech sector. The big story: U.S. and Russia in talks on Ukraine. The markets: Treading water. Analyst notes from Goldman Sachs (on the U.S. economy), Apollo (on GDP),
VOA Mandarin: Xi Jinping meets with Chinese tech tycoons
Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted a meeting with Chinese high-tech tycoons on Monday. Observers said that Xi’s meeting sends a positive signal to “help promote the private sector.” But Xi needs to do more,
Who is Yu Renrong, China’s only chip industry representative at Xi Jinping’s symposium?
Yu founded Will Semiconductor in 2007 and has made a name as a successful deal maker in China's chip industry Yu Renrong, the only semiconductor executive to attend a symposium hosted by Xi Jinping with other Chinese entrepreneurs earlier this week,
Xi Is Trying to Secure the Devotion of China’s Military
After the Chinese leader purged dozens of military commanders, he launched a new indoctrination campaign.
Trump’s freeze on foreign aid could give China an opening on the world stage
President Donald Trump’s restrictions on foreign aid and targeting of a key agency funding programs around the world may be ...
China's Xi holds rare meet with business leaders amid US tech rivalry
President Xi Jinping held a rare meeting on Monday with some of the biggest names in China's technology sector, such as ...
Xi’s Embrace of China Tech CEOs Spurs Hope of Big Economic Shift
President Xi Jinping’s embrace of Chinese tech bosses in a rare public meeting is fueling hope Beijing is shifting its stance ...
In from the cold? Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma spotted among top tech bosses who met China’s Xi
Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and the country’s top tech executives in Beijing on Monday, in a ...
Xi Jinping’s graft crackdown is fight without end
It’s 12 years since Xi Jinping launched his crackdown on graft with a promise to catch “flies” as well as “tigers”. Since ...
Chinese media echoes Xi’s speech on private sector with flurry of editorials
Soon after the Chinese president openly backed the country’s private firms, state news outlets followed suit with numerous ...
China’s DeepSeek has taken the world by storm. Here are the brains powering the AI sensation
DeepSeek founder Liang has received the lion's share of media attention in recent weeks as his AI assistant ascended to the ...