Jiangsu Governor Xu Kunlin met with Jeff Williams, Apple's chief operating officer.
Securities Times News reported that on October 22, Jiangsu Governor Xu Kunlin met with Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc. in Suzhou. Xu Kunlin expressed welcome to Jeff Williams and introduced the economic and social development of Jiangsu. Xu Kunlin said that Jiangsu is one of the most developed and promising regions in China and is the "best partner" for foreign and domestic enterprises to invest and develop. At present, Jiangsu is deeply implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, further comprehensively reforming, actively opening up to the outside world, strengthening the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and accelerating the construction of a globally influential industrial innovation center and an important battlefield for the development of new production forces, which provides more market opportunities and broad development space for foreign enterprises including Apple Inc. in Jiangsu. We hope that Apple Inc. will increase its business and investment layout in Jiangsu, deepen cooperation in the industrial chain and supply chain, share global innovation resources and experience, and bring more R&D projects to Jiangsu, so as to link more high-quality enterprises in Jiangsu with Apple and promote more win-win results. We will continue to create a first-class market-oriented, rule-of-law and internationalized business environment and provide services and protection as always to support enterprises in Jiangsu to achieve better development.