The meeting follows an announcement by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that it would give US$50 million to support Chinese efforts to fight malaria and tuberculosis.
BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his"old friend" Bill Gates on Friday that China had always placed its hopes in the American people, after the Microsoft co-founder's foundation pledged US$50 million to help Chinese efforts to battle disease.visit China
"You are the first American friend I have met in Beijing this year," Xi told Gates in Beijing, according to the state-run People's Daily. "We've always had great conversations and we'll have a lot of important topics to discuss today," he said. The foundation announced it would renew a collaboration with the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute - a Beijing-based group set up by Gates, the Beijing municipal government and Tsinghua University.
"China has made significant gains reducing poverty and improving health outcomes within China," Gates said. During a visit to the country the previous year, he brandished a jar of human waste at a forum in Beijing in a bid to draw attention to the shortage of toilets in the developing world.
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