Samsung Lee Jae-yong visits China after nearly three years: attending China Development High-level Forum and inspecting factories in Tianjin
CTOnews.com March 27 news, in order to attend the China Development Forum (CDF) 2023 annual meeting held from the 25th to 27th of this month, Samsung Electronics President Lee Jae-yong arrived in Beijing by charter plane on the afternoon of the 23rd. This is Lee Jae-yong's second visit to China nearly three years after he visited Samsung's Xi'an semiconductor factory in May 2020.
It is reported that Lee Jae-yong visited Tianjin Samsung Motor Co., Ltd. on the 24th. Lee Jae-yong and his party visited the Tianjin multilayer ceramic chip capacitor (MLCC) production line, which was put into production in 2021. Samsung Motor Tianjin factory and Busan factory are the main production bases for Samsung to provide MLCC products to overseas markets. According to CTOnews.com, at present, in addition to Samsung Motor's MLCC and camera module factory, Samsung display smartphone OLED module factory is also located in Tianjin, and Samsung SDI also has a power battery production line in Tianjin for new energy vehicles.
According to South Korea's Asia Daily, Lee's visit to China was extremely low-key, and when he arrived at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing to attend the forum, he simply said to the South Korean media who had been there for a long time, "the weather in Beijing is good, isn't it?" Did not answer any questions.
The China Development High-level Forum, established in 2000, has developed into China's main platform for foreign economic exchanges, sponsored by the Development Research Center of the State Council and hosted by the China Development Research Foundation. The theme of the annual meeting is "Economic recovery: opportunities and Cooperation". More than 30 leaders at the central ministerial level, more than 20 heads of central enterprises and central financial institutions, and more than 100 overseas people will attend the annual meeting. In addition to Lee Jae-yong, Apple CEO Tim Cook and heads of Siemens, Qualcomm, Corning, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Ami also attended the meeting.
