Li Qiang meets with Bill Gates, chairman of the Gates Foundation United States.

On September 24th local time, Premier Li Keqiang met with Bill Gates, Chairman of the Gates Foundation, in New York. Li Keqiang expressed appreciation for Gates and the foundation's long-standing commitment to global poverty reduction, health, development, and philanthropic causes. Li Keqiang stated that in recent years, China's health industry has made significant achievements, establishing the world's largest disease control and medical service systems, and actively participating in global development cooperation. China is willing to establish a closer cooperation relationship with the foundation, carry out more cooperation projects throughout the entire chain in the field of global health, actively engage in trilateral and multilateral cooperation with developing countries, better benefit the local people, and make greater contributions to global development. He hopes that the foundation will continue to strengthen cooperation with relevant departments and regions in China, make good use of platforms such as the Beijing Global Health Drug R&D Center and the Shanghai Global Health and Development Excellence Center, and implement relevant cooperation projects. Li Keqiang pointed out that maintaining a healthy and stable development of China-US relations not only benefits the two countries but also benefits the world. With numerous global challenges emerging, China and the US should continue to closely cooperate, strengthen and improve global governance, and jointly promote world stability, development, and prosperity. He looks forward to Gates and the foundation playing their own roles, promoting deeper cooperation between China and the US, and achieving more practical results. Gates stated that China's remarkable achievements in the fields of technology innovation, artificial intelligence, health, and poverty reduction in recent years have attracted worldwide attention. The foundation looks forward to further enhancing relations with China, carrying out more substantive cooperation in the field of global health, especially in developing countries, and jointly promoting global development. The US-China relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world today, and the foundation and himself are willing to make active efforts to promote enhanced communication and cooperation between the two countries and join hands in addressing global challenges.