Apple enjoys a “symbiotic” relationship with China, CEO Tim Prepare dinner mentioned on Saturday, because the iPhone big appears to maneuver manufacturing overseas.
Prepare dinner, who’s in China to attend the high-profile China Improvement Discussion board, mentioned “Apple and China grew collectively,” throughout an interview on the function of know-how in schooling.
“This has been a symbiotic sort of relationship that I feel we each loved,” he mentioned on the state-run occasion attended by prime authorities officers and company leaders.
Prepare dinner’s go to comes as Apple, the world’s greatest firm by market worth, is attempting to maneuver manufacturing out of China.
Final yr, Apple gross sales had been hit by curtailed manufacturing at factories because of China’s zero-Covid coverage.
US export controls on high-tech elements are additionally threatening the corporate’s provide chain.
Prepare dinner didn’t deal with provide chain points throughout his dialogue.
As a substitute, he targeted on the necessity to bridge the schooling hole between city and rural faculties and inspired younger folks to be taught programming and significant pondering abilities.
He additionally pledged to extend Apple’s spending on its rural schooling program in China to 100 million yuan ($15 million).
Prepare dinner visited an Apple Retailer in downtown Beijing on Friday, and a photograph of him posing for a selfie with singer Huang Ling has gone viral on Chinese language social media.
