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1 of 2 | Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited nan Tesla electrical car works adjacent Berlin, Germany past month.. Musk visited China, nan world's largest automaker, complete nan play successful support of EVs. File Photo by Filip Singer/EPA-EFE
April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. billionaire Elon Musk met pinch Chinese Premier Li Qiang connected Sunday successful Beijing, pinch nan laminitis of SpaceX and Tesla aiming to bring Tesla's self-diving exertion to cars successful nan world's largest automaker.
"Honored to meet pinch Premier Li Qiang," Musk said in a statement connected X, which he owns.
China's overseas ministry spokeswoman responded to nan connection by welcoming Musk to China.
"Tesla's occurrence successful China is simply a stellar illustration of China-U.S. economical and waste and acquisition cooperation," she said.
Musk's latest sojourn is happening astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan 2024 Beijing Auto Show, which started connected Thursday and ran done Saturday.
In his statement, Musk had said that he had known Li "for galore years," which seemed to corroborate an earlier study that said Musk was expected to meet elder Chinese officials astatine nan State Council arsenic good arsenic "old friends" successful Beijing.
Texas-based Tesla has faced title from Chinese EV makers precocious and has trim nan prices of its Shanghai-made vehicles by up to 6% to support its starring position successful China's high-end EV market, South China Morning News reported.
Chinese drivers person progressively adopted driver-assistance systems and higher levels of autonomous driving functions successful mass-produced cars. Musk has said Tesla's autopilot and supervised afloat self-driving options could soon beryllium provided to its Chinese customers.
During nan meeting, Li described Tesla's improvement successful China arsenic a successful illustration of affirmative U.S.-China bilateral relations, nan charismatic insubstantial of nan Chinese Communist Party People's Daily reported.
Musk responded by stating his Tesla Shanghai gigafactory is Tesla's apical performer and he suggested a want to deepen practice pinch nan Asian nation.
It was Musk' 2nd sojourn to China successful a year.
