U.S. President Donald Trump toasts at a state dinner hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on May 14, 2026.
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BEIJING—With two days left until Chinese President Xi Jinping lands in the United States, little is known about who the top Chinese official will be joining.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement to CNBC on Tuesday that it had no information to provide. The ministry confirmed late Monday that Xi’s visit to the United States is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday.
A person briefed on the preparations but not authorized to comment on the record said he was not aware of any Chinese companies that had been invited to attend the Chinese president’s tour.
On the US side, microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be among executives attending a dinner scheduled for Thursday in Washington, D.C., sources said.
Microsoft and the White House did not respond to CNBC’s requests for comment.
U.S. officials revealed the names of other executives who will participate.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Apple CEO Tim Cook arrive to attend a meeting between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and US company representatives at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on May 14, 2026.
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Business leaders include:
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang OpenAI’s Sam Altman Google’s Sundar Pichai Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk Jane Fraser of Citigroup Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Apple’s Tim Cook Dell’s Michael Del Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
On May 14, 2026, Boeing CEO Kelly Oasberg met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang along with US executives on the sidelines of the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing.
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On the Chinese side, Reuters reported last week that representatives of companies under consideration include electric car giant BYD, smartphone company Xiaomi, battery makers CATL and Gotion, consumer electronics maker Hisense, auto parts company Wanxiang, state-owned Bank of China, and agricultural conglomerate COFCO Group.
BYD did not comment in response to CNBC’s inquiries. Other Chinese companies did not respond to requests for comment.
“BYD’s participation in this week’s Trump-Xi meeting will send a strong signal about the potential of Chinese EVs in the U.S. and the importance Xi places on them in China’s overseas expansion strategy,” said Isaac Stone Fish, founder and CEO of Strategy Risks, a US-based advisory firm.
Mr. Xi may bring in the heads of state-owned enterprises, but “that would be senior government officials, in some cases effectively cabinet members of the Chinese government,” he said. “This may appear to the United States as unduly blurring the lines between business and government delegations, and state-owned enterprises are overall less welcoming to investors in the United States than private companies.”
As tensions between the United States and China have escalated in recent years, both governments have put companies in the other country on blacklists restricting their business activities.
—CNBC’s Jordan Nove and Ashley Trujillo contributed to this report.
