Xi Jinping met with Microsoft founder Bill Gates

Today, June 16, Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Microsoft founder Bill Gates in Beijing. TASS reported about it. "China is ready to continue strengthening cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in relevant fields and to provide support and assistance to developing countries within its capabilities," the Chinese leader said in a meeting with the American billionaire. According to Chinese publications, this is the first meeting of the Chinese leader with foreign businessmen in several years. Xi Jinping thanked Gates for his many years of fighting global poverty and his philanthropic work. During the meeting with Bill Gates, Xi Jinping said that he was the first friend from the United States that he met in Beijing this year. For information, the American billionaire arrived in the Chinese capital on June 14. He wrote on his Twitter page that this is his first visit to China since 2019.