Li Mingyuan, mayor of Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, held talks with Sui Qiang, general manager of Beijing Stock Exchange, in the national capital of Beijing on March 14.

Incorporated on Sept 3, 2021, the Beijing Stock Exchange is the country's first corporate stock exchange established with the approval of the State Council, China's Cabinet.

Li visited the trading hall and reception room, learned more about the stock exchange's layout, operation management and business innovation, and expressed his gratitude for its support of Xi'an.

He said that, in recent years, the city has developed and incubated a large number of scientific and technological innovation enterprises with core technologies. It has also made breakthroughs in the number and quality of its listed companies.

It is hoped that Beijing Stock Exchange will give greater attention and support to Xi'an enterprises and provide guidance for high-quality enterprises to enter the capital market, Li said.

Sui said that Beijing Stock Exchange will deepen its all-round cooperation with Xi'an, support enterprises to develop in a standardized and innovative way, and promote more enterprises in Xi'an to list.

Li also visited the Beijing headquarters of Amazon Cloud Technology and COFCO Group Co and had discussions with them.

Moving forwards, plans are for Xi'an to continue to optimize its business environment, boost its policies and guarantees and support enterprises to invest and start businesses in the city, the mayor added.