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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Helen Davidson in Taipei and agencies

Xi Jinping tells Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Chinese tech chiefs to ‘show their talent’

Alibaba’s Jack Ma pictured in 2019.
Jack Ma in 2019. The founder of Alibaba disappeared from public view for months after a 2020 speech in which he was critical of the Chinese government. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has told businesses to “show their talent” at a meeting of Chinese industry leaders including the Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, as he attempts to halt an economic slump in the world’s second-largest economy.

Xi met Ma, who was at the centre of a crackdown on the tech industry in recent years, as well as the bosses of the electric carmaker BYD, the battery manufacturer CATL, Tencent, Xiaomi, and the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei

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