Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who accompanied the business delegation formed for the first time in six years since 2019 on the occasion of President Lee Jae-myung's state visit to China, returned home on the 6th after a two-night, three-day schedule. Lee avoided answering a question asking for his impressions of the visit to China.
At about 4:10 p.m. that day, Lee arrived through the Seoul Gimpo Business Aviation Center (SGBAC) in Gangseo District, Seoul, and, when asked for his impressions as a member of the delegation to China, said, "Thank you for your hard work," before leaving the scene.
Lee, who left for a business trip to China on the 4th, attended events such as the Korea-China Business Forum on the 5th, the day before, and on the same day visited the JD mall in Beijing to look around the Samsung Electronics flagship store and local home appliance and furniture company stores.
Leading the delegation in his capacity as KORCHAM chairman, Choi was joined by Lee, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, and other heads of the four major groups, with about 200 businesspeople participating.
The business forum held at Diaoyutai in Beijing was a Korea-China event for businesspeople held for the first time in about eight years since December 2017. From the Chinese side, TCL Technology Group Chairman Li Dongsheng, a manufacturing corporation focused on TVs, home appliances, and displays, and CATL Chairman Zeng Yuqun, a manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and ESS, attended the event and met with Korean businesspeople.
Wang Jianyou, chairman of apparel corporation LANCY, Liu Yong, vice chairman of Tencent, a mobile messenger and game corporation, and Xu Ziyang, chairman of ZTE, a telecommunications equipment and smartphone corporation, also took part.
Amid the U.S.-China hegemony race and heightened supply chain risks, the delegation is expected to have met with major Chinese corporations to discuss economic cooperation plans between Korea and China surrounding key industries such as semiconductors and batteries.