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Reuters
Reuters
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By Joe Cash

China's overtures to foreign firms fall on familiar ears at 'Asia's Davos'

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Journalists watch a giant screen broadcasting live-streaming footage of Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2023, at the media centre in Boao, Hainan province, China March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Shuyan Wang/File Photo

'China is open for business' was the message its newly-appointed Premier Li Qiang delivered this week to the Boao Forum, an international summit sometimes touted as Asia's answer to the World Economic Forum's meetings in Davos.

But unlike the gaggle of global leaders, celebrities and CEOs that descended on the Swiss Alps in January, the foreign contingent in Li's audience were outnumbered by a local crowd of Chinese business leaders, academics and China-based diplomats.

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