President Xi Jinping Meets with Bill Gates

On June 16, President Xi Jinping met with Bill Gates, Co Chairman of the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation in Beijing.

On June 16, President Xi Jinping met with Bill Gates, Co Chairman of the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation in Beijing. Photographed by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pang Xinglei

President Xi Jinping expressed appreciation to Gates and his foundation for their long-term commitment to promoting global poverty reduction, health, development, and charitable causes. President Xi Jinping emphasized that at present, the world's unprecedented major changes are accelerating their evolution. I have proposed the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, and Global Civilization Initiative with the aim of providing a Chinese solution to global challenges. China first focuses on solving its own problems. As a large country with a population of over 1.4 billion, maintaining long-term stability and sustainable development in China is a significant contribution to world peace, stability, and prosperity. We need to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, achieve rural revitalization, and continuously improve the level of rural health and hygiene.

President Xi Jinping stressed that China is committed to comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. We will never follow the old path of national hegemony, but work with other countries to achieve common development and promote the construction of a Community of Common Destiny. China is willing to engage in extensive scientific and technological innovation cooperation with countries around the world, actively participate in and promote global challenges such as addressing climate change, combating the epidemic, and public health. China is willing to continue to strengthen cooperation in relevant fields with the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation and provide support and assistance to other developing countries within its capacity.

On June 16, President Xi Jinping met with Bill Gates, Co Chairman of the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation in Beijing. Photographed by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Bogu

President Xi Jinping said to Gates, 'You are the first American friend I have met in Beijing this year.'. The world is coming out of the COVID-19, and people should move around more, communicate more, and enhance understanding. I often say that the foundation of China US relations lies among the people, and we have always placed hope in the American people, hoping that the friendship between the two peoples will continue.

Gates introduced the progress and future vision of cooperation with China, saying that China has made remarkable achievements in poverty reduction and coping with the COVID-19 epidemic, setting a good example for the world. In recent years, the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation has carried out good cooperation with China and made remarkable progress. China's accelerated innovation and development is beneficial to China, developing countries, and the world. The Foundation is committed to further strengthening cooperation with China in innovation, global poverty reduction, public health, Drug development, rural agriculture and other fields, and promoting successful experience and technology to developing countries.

Wang Yi, Qin Gang, and others attended the meeting.