China's Xi meets business leaders including Alibaba's Jack Ma

Beijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2025

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting Monday with top private business leaders including Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, state media footage showed. Since coming to power more than a decade ago, Xi has consistently sought to bolster the role of state enterprises in the world's second-largest economy and warned against the "disorderly" expansion of the private sector. But reports last w