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Xi Jinping visits manufacturing hub Yiwu to hear about efforts to boost foreign trade
- Chinese leader also went to Lizu, a village hailed as a rural revitalisation success story
- Xi is in Zhejiang province for the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou
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President Xi Jinping visited the manufacturing hub of Yiwu in eastern China on Wednesday to see how exporters are trying to boost foreign trade, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Xi is in Zhejiang province to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday, as well as a banquet and meetings with foreign leaders at the event.
He is expected to be joined at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre for the ceremony by Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo.
Hong Kong’s leader John Lee Ka-chiu, who is scheduled to travel to mainland China on Friday, will also attend the ceremony, as well as visit the athletes’ village to meet the city’s delegation.
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Ahead of the Asian Games, Xi on Wednesday visited Lizu, a village hailed as a success story of Beijing’s push to revitalise rural areas.
Xi also went to Yiwu in Jinhua – home to the world’s largest wholesale market for small manufactured goods – where he heard about “the development of distinctive local industries, efforts to promote rural revitalisation and boost foreign trade”, according to the Xinhua report on Thursday.
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Yiwu, which is seen as a barometer for Chinese exports and a symbolic place for entrepreneurship, has been hit by reduced international demand and the effect of China’s tensions with the United States and its allies.
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