BEIJING — China’s President Xi Jinping met with US executives and academics at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday (March 27), state media reported, following on from a November dinner with US executives in San Francisco.
The meeting began at 11 am (0300 GMT) following the taking of a group photo, the report said. An accompanying video showed the attendees would be sat in a square formation, with the two fully visible sides both set out with seven seats each.
A large red, orange and green floral installation sits in between the four tables, the video showed, in a room in the Great Hall of the People reserved for important functions.
The chief executive of US insurer Chubb, Evan Greenberg, Stephen Orlins, president of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council are among those attending the meeting, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The audience with Xi follows Chinese Premier Li Qiang not meeting visiting foreign CEOs at the China Development Forum in Beijing on March 24-25, which prompted concerns over transparency in the world’s second-largest economy.
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