Chinese hotpot with ex-girlfriend Grimes rounds out big few days for Tesla chief Elon Musk
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Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk dined at a hotpot restaurant in Beijing, a day after he received an offer of permanent Chinese residency from Premier Li Keqiang.
Musk was seen eating at Qimen Shuanrou in the capital’s Guijie area with singer Grimes, a former girlfriend, in videos that appeared on social media on Thursday.
Musk met Li on Wednesday, the premier’s first foreign affairs event of the year. The men were at Zhongnanhai – the former imperial garden in Beijing that is home to the headquarters of the Communist Party and the government – two days after Tesla broke ground at its Gigafactory 3 project in Shanghai, its first production base outside the United States.
Li said he hoped Tesla could help drive China’s continued opening up, and even offered to issue a Chinese green card to the American entrepreneur, the government’s website said.
Li congratulated Musk on construction of the multibillion-dollar facility, which began three months after the maker of America’s bestselling electric cars secured the land at an industrial zone in Lingang.