[Guangdong Province Governor Meng Fanli met with Tim Cook, executive chairman of Apple Inc., and his delegation in Guangzhou on October 11. Tim Cook thanked Guangdong Province for its long-term support for Apple’s development. He said that Guangdong is an important manufacturing center in the world, with a complete industrial and supply chain, strong innovation and creativity, and a promising consumer market and cooperation space, and has gathered a large number of Apple supply chain partners and ecological developers. Guangdong is crucial to Apple's development in China. The company is willing to further expand its business layout in Guangdong and explore more cooperation with relevant cities and enterprises in Guangdong around supply chain collaboration, innovative ecosystem empowerment, intelligent and green manufacturing, and sales channel expansion to better achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. Meng Fanli welcomed Tim Cook and his party. He said that Apple is a world-renowned technology leader and has long-term, extensive and in-depth cooperation with Guangdong in terms of production, sales and R&D. Currently, Guangdong is anchoring on the direction of intelligent, green, and integrated development, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. We very much welcome and support Apple to closely connect with all aspects of Guangdong, put more innovative products, emerging businesses, and R&D platforms in Guangdong, and continue to expand new areas and new spaces for cooperation. Guangdong will continue to expand high-level opening up to the outside world, create a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment, and provide high-quality services for the development of various enterprises in Guangdong, including Apple. (Southern+)