Bill Gates Meets President Xi Jinping in Beijing, Discusses Eradication of Infectious Diseases
Among other items on his itinerary, Bill Gates visited Xi Jinping in Beijing. However, specific details about their discussions are not known.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday. The conversation between them comes on the third day of Gates’ visit and one day after he met with the Mayor of Beijing, Yin Yong.
Although there are no official details of Bill Gates’ meeting with President Xi Jinping, the meeting with the mayor of Beijing included a partnership with China on drug discovery. Xi Jinping It said Gates said the meeting was his first with an “American friend” this year.
On Wednesday, Gates He said His visit to China is his first since 2019 and he confirmed that he plans to visit partners “working on global health and development challenges” with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for 15 years.
Gates also spoke at the Global Health Institute for Drug Discovery (GHDDI), which develops new drugs for infectious diseases. The institute focuses on diseases that affect the world’s destitute population, including diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.
During that commentsGates said there is a greater need to address global challenges as we have seen in the world since his last visit to China in 2019. Gates pointed to climate change, the hunger crisis in some parts of the world and the “resurgence of infectious diseases.” He added:
China has made significant gains in reducing poverty and improving health outcomes within China. I hope that China can play a greater role in addressing the current challenges, especially those facing African countries.”
Gates also said he is optimistic that the world can better overcome these challenges through the progress measured over the past few decades. According to him, nearly 1 in 10 children in low-income countries died before 5 years in 1990 from preventable diseases. The current situation, according to him, is 1 in 25 children, with a low infant mortality rate in China of 94%.
Xi Jinping administration to strengthen working relations with Bill Gates and other dignitaries
Gates is optimistic about the possibility of eradicating infectious diseases in other parts of the world because of the successes related to China. For example, Gates said that the World Health Organization declared China malaria-free in 2021. This is a long way from the 1950s when China recorded more than 300,000 malaria deaths out of 30 million cases annually.
In a statement issued by the mayor of Beijing published Per the Beijing Daily, the city is interested in a deeper relationship with the Gates Foundation. Young said Beijing is “ready to deepen cooperation with the Gates Foundation” for scientific research and talent training.
Bill Gates’ visit comes shortly after Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk met with Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Gang to discuss business. Tesla has a huge factory in Shanghai, where it manufactures and exports products to Asian countries. Tesla also plans to start building a massive 40-gigawatt-hour plant in Shanghai this year.
In addition to Bill Gates, many dignitaries have visited China recently, although they have not always met with members of Xi Jinping’s administration. In May, during his first visit since 2021, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Wire At the JPM Global China Summit in Shanghai. Also, Apple CEO Tim Cook Visit Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing in March.
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