Xi Jinping tells Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Chinese tech chiefs to ‘show their talent’
by Helen Davidson in Taipei and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6VB3F)
Analysts say address to symposium suggests crackdown on sector may be ending in effort to tackle economic slump
China's president, Xi Jinping, has told businesses to show their talent" at a meeting of Chinese industry leaders including the Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, as he attempts to halt an economic slump in the world's second-largest economy.
Xi met Ma, who was at the centre of a crackdown on the tech industry in recent years, as well as the bosses of the electric carmaker BYD, the battery manufacturer CATL, Tencent, Xiaomi, and the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei
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