Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O), will likely visit China in April and meet with Premier Li Qiang, two individuals familiar with the travel told Reuters.
Tesla and China’s State Council Information Office did not immediately respond to calls for comment.
China is Tesla’s second-biggest market after the US, and its Shanghai facility is its major manufacturing base.
Musk would mark the first time he has visited China since the COVID-19 pandemic and since Xi Jinping secured a third term as China’s president.
Businessman and investor Elon Musk. He founded SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, the Boring Corporation, Neuralink, OpenAI, and the Musk Foundation.
As of March 27, 2023, he was valued at $192 billion, mostly from his Tesla and SpaceX interests. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes’ real-time billionaires’ list rank Musk second globally.
