(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on June 15, 2023 shows US philantropist Bill Gates in New York on September 21, 2022 and China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on October 23, 2022. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 16, 2023, state media reported.
"On June 16, President Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing with Bill Gates, head of the Gates Foundation," state broadcaster CCTV said.
Gates -- one of the world's richest men -- is one of a number of Western business leaders to visit China since the country ended strict Covid controls that saw it largely closed off from the world for almost three years.
The visit is his first to the country in four years. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN and Noel CELIS / AFP)
