Bill Gates Reportedly Snags Rare Meeting With Xi Jinping Amid China Tour: ‘Need To Unlock That Kind Of Progress’

Vehicles are parked on a street pavement by a shopfront used as a warehouse for supermarket deliveries, closed for the Lunar New Year, in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province, on January 23, 2023. Corporate chiefs have been making a beeline for China ever since the country reopened its economy late last year following the strict COVID-19 lockdowns. PHOTO BY HECTOR RETAMAL/GETTY IMAGES

Corporate chiefs have been making a beeline for China ever since the country reopened its economy late last year following the strict COVID-19 lockdowns.

Bill Gates, a former tech entrepreneur who has now settled into the role of a climate evangelist and philanthropist, is in China currently in connection with his mission.