BEIJING, Feb 18 – China’s President Xi Jinping Monday asked tech leaders and entrepreneurs to give “full play” to their potential, according to an official statement.
He was addressing a round table of the leaders gathered to boost the private sector, where he also listened to the sector representatives.
Wang Huning, the head of China’s top political advisory body, chaired the symposium which was also attended by Premier Li Qiang and Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang.
Highlighting the private sector’s “bright prospects and vast potential,“ Xi said: “It is the right time for private enterprises and entrepreneurs to give full play to their potential.”
Xi underscored the importance of promoting the healthy and high-quality development of the private sector, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning.
A short video showed that Ren Zhengfei, the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, Wang Chuanfu, the chairman and CEO of electric carmaker BYD, Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, Lei Jun of Xiaomi, Ma Huateng of Tencent, and Liang Wenfeng of the artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek were among the participants of the symposium.
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