Nvidia CEO meets China’s commerce minister to discuss AI cooperation, foreign investment

[Daniel Nenni]

In a meeting with Jensen Huang, Minister Wang Wentao says China’s doors are wide open for Nvidia and other multinational firms

Wency Chenin Shanghai
Published: 9:00pm, 18 Jul 2025

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) cooperation, days after the chipmaker said it was resuming sales of its H20 chips to the country.

Wang said China’s policies for attracting foreign investment remained unchanged, and its doors would only open wider, according to a statement issued by the ministry on Friday. Highlighting the country’s vast market, Wang encouraged multinational firms, including Nvidia, to continue providing high-quality and reliable products and services to Chinese customers.

Huang said the Chinese market was attractive and affirmed Nvidia’s commitment to deepening collaboration with Chinese partners in the AI sector, according to the statement.

On Monday, Nvidia said it was filing applications to resume sales of its H20 chips in China after the US government assured the company that licences would be granted. Those chips have been subject to Washington’s export restrictions since April.

The company also planned to introduce a new RTX Pro graphics processing unit that fully complied with regulatory requirements.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praises China’s AI progress following chip sales approval

Huang has emerged as an unofficial US emissary amid geopolitical tensions with China. “This month, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang promoted AI in both Washington and Beijing,” the California-based company said in its statement.

Still, Huang noted that the recovery of the supply chain would take time: It currently took Nvidia about nine months from placing wafer orders to delivering finished computing products, he told Chinese media on Wednesday.

On Friday, a representative for China’s Ministry of Commerce urged the US to “abandon its zero-sum mentality and continue removing unreasonable trade restrictions against China”.

The representative added that following bilateral talks last month, the two parties were maintaining close communication to finalise and implement details of a trade framework.

“Cooperation for mutual benefit between China and the US is the right path; suppression and containment lead nowhere,” the person said.

During Huang’s visit to China this week – his third this year – he expressed great enthusiasm for the Chinese AI industry.

Speaking at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Wednesday, he opened his speech in Mandarin, calling Chinese open-source AI a “catalyst for global progress” that offered “every country and industry a chance to join the AI revolution”.

Throughout his trip, Huang acknowledged China’s AI advancements, citing models from Alibaba Group Holding, as well as start-ups DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. He praised dozens of Chinese tech companies, including Huawei Technologies, Baidu, Tencent Holdings, NetEase, miHoYo, and Game Science. Alibaba owns the Post.

Huang also met prominent Chinese entrepreneurs and AI experts, including Xiaomi founder Lei Jun, MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie, and Alibaba Cloud’s Wang Jian.

Nvidia’s US stock rose more than 5.6 per cent to US$173 between Monday and Thursday, buoyed by the resumption of H20 chip sales in China. Its market capitalisation surpassed US$4 trillion last week, making it the world’s first company to reach this milestone.

Nvidia CEO meets China’s commerce minister to discuss AI cooperation

In a meeting with Jensen Huang, Minister Wang Wentao says China’s doors are wide open for Nvidia and other multinational firms.

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[Daniel Nenni]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Beijing:
On Xiaomi: “I’d love to buy a Xiaomi car.”
On Huawei: “Anyone who underestimates Huawei is extremely naive.”
On Apple: “Their AI has its rhythm.”
On DeepSeek: “An undeniable technological breakthrough.”
On China’s AI future: “Everything is in place; success is inevitable.”
On China’s robotics: “The outlook is very promising — no surprise at all.”
On China’s supply chain: “Incredibly complex and extensive, with a leading level of technology.”

 

[soAsian]

中國 養套殺 (Raise, trap, and kill)

 

[Paul2]

Nvidia videocards are still being manufactured in China, despite the bans, through the exploitation of literal reading of the previous ban. PRC could've hurt Nvidia way more than the other way around by shutting down their manufacturing in Xiamen.

 

[Franco Cartolano]

It has become impossible to trust the USA trade policy, China will actually accelerate its developments of advanced AI chips, they can't accept to be a tier 2 region in that regard, which they are now since they don't have access to the highest performance devices. NVDA risks big with the current trade war and the erratic behaviour of the US government. Jensen sounded more like a sales rep than a CEO, and less self confident than he rightfully usually is. It's a sad story, he doesn't deserve it.

 

[Franco Cartolano]

中國 養套殺 (Raise, trap, and kill)

It would make sense and the situation may be irreversible.
If I was JH, there would be big men with red ties and blonde hair featured in my worse nightmares.

 

[Xebec]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Beijing:
On Xiaomi: “I’d love to buy a Xiaomi car.”
On Huawei: “Anyone who underestimates Huawei is extremely naive.”
On Apple: “Their AI has its rhythm.”
On DeepSeek: “An undeniable technological breakthrough.”
On China’s AI future: “Everything is in place; success is inevitable.”
On China’s robotics: “The outlook is very promising — no surprise at all.”
On China’s supply chain: “Incredibly complex and extensive, with a leading level of technology.”

"Non-committal flattery gets you everywhere" - Jensen Huang

Though, to be fair - it's a LOT better overall to be a positive person in business dealings.

 

[DanX]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Beijing:
On Xiaomi: “I’d love to buy a Xiaomi car.”
On Huawei: “Anyone who underestimates Huawei is extremely naive.”
On Apple: “Their AI has its rhythm.”
On DeepSeek: “An undeniable technological breakthrough.”
On China’s AI future: “Everything is in place; success is inevitable.”
On China’s robotics: “The outlook is very promising — no surprise at all.”
On China’s supply chain: “Incredibly complex and extensive, with a leading level of technology.”

Huang's words have their own logic.
Xiaomi's EVs are exceptional.
Huawei is another story.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Jensen Huang Wiki - Semiwiki

Full Name: Jen-Hsun

semiwiki.com

 

[msek59]

JH’s comments are reminiscent of the platitudes heaped on the PRC by global elitists…

 

[Xebec]

Jensen Huang Wiki - Semiwiki

Full Name: Jen-Hsun

semiwiki.com

I like this breakdown of his biography.

Why does Jensen get credit in the industry for 'worlds first GPU'?

There are so many prior examples of graphics chips that can run their own instructions independent of the CPU ..? ex: Atari's ANTIC from 1979 had sprite (and other) acceleration, also it's own programming langauge. ANTIC had DMA and it's own registers. ANTIC could even pause the CPU to do graphics work. Sounds like a Graphics Processing Unit to me?

 

[swka]

Why does Jensen get credit in the industry for 'worlds first GPU'?

typical example of winner (re)writting history I think

 

[DanX]

JH’s comments are reminiscent of the platitudes heaped on the PRC by global elitists…

Huang’s view is spot-on—it just tells only half the story.
For example Huawei is beloved by the general public, but is loathed and feared by the whole indurstry in China.
As for the embargo imposed on it, the respond is that finally someone drove the bully out.
Because, anyone who underestimates Huawei is extremely naive.

 

[Paul2]

"Non-committal flattery gets you everywhere" - Jensen Huang

It gets you killed in mainland China, if you do it with powerful people. An almost natural reaction to somebody trying butter up to someone in power, is a fear of it being a stage for entrapment.

中國 養套殺 (Raise, trap, and kill)

Well wishers are dangerous. People from the civilised countries don't know that offers of free cheese should be feared of, not celebrated

 

[DanX]

Everyone has heard that government intervention distorts the market, but only those who have lived through it truly know how.
When I started up my company, I once considered to startup an internet company.
I asked a veteran for advice, and his first question was, “How will you deal with pornographic images?”
Should I start by trying to build an automatic-detection program—or just sell the program outright?
I will give the correct answer in 2 days.

 

[DanX]

Everyone has heard that government intervention distorts the market, but only those who have lived through it truly know how.
When I started up my company, I once considered to startup an internet company.
I asked a veteran for advice, and his first question was, “How will you deal with pornographic images?”
Should I start by trying to build an automatic-detection program—or just sell the program outright?
I will give the correct answer in 2 days.

Koan is a traditional method of mentor and apprentice transmission among the ancient Chinese elite.
A few years ago, when I tried to startup an internet company, my mentor presented me with a koan for three days:
If your website contains pornographic images, it will be shut down. How will you deal with pornographic images?
My answer: I’ll build a state-of-the-art AI to detect it—and maybe even sell the software to the entire industry.

My mentor told me about his answer: Pornographic images have much higher click-through rates . You can use this to detect them . You could even automate the injection of such images onto rivals’ pages to eliminate the competition.

His mentor told him: I would find out the regulators who oversee my company and bribe them to tip me off in advance.

The main issue of government intervention isn’t less efficient; it distorts the market to no sense at all.

 

[Y.H]

I still don’t quite get the logic. of saying AI is strategic technology hence US should export to China , which US viewed as an adversary so that US can continue to dominate AI. I mean, would the logic also applies to exporting nuclear weapon technologies to Iran or N Korea ?

 

[samwilde]

The objective is to keep China hooked on US supply but permanently behind techwise.

 

[Paul2]

He met a commerce minister, but few Americans realise how little it means. It's in America when you meet government people, it's a big thing, it's not on that side of Pacific.

 

[Xebec]

An Update on this exchange - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/china-probes-nvidia-h20-chips-for-tracking-risks.html
(Bolding below is mine)

Nvidia’s China-bound H20 AI chips face Beijing scrutiny over ‘tracking’ and security concerns​

According to the Cyberspace Administration of China, Nvidia met with Beijing officials on Thursday regarding national security concerns posed by the H20 chips, which are expected to resume shipments to China following an effective ban in April.

Nvidia was requested “to clarify and submit relevant supporting documentation regarding security risks, including potential vulnerabilities and backdoors, associated with its H20 computing chips sold to China,” according to a CNBC translation of a statement from CAC.

In a post, the regulator said that Nvidia’s AI chips have been reported to contain serious security vulnerabilities. It also noted calls from U.S. lawmakers for mandatory tracking features to be placed on advanced chip exports.

CAC added that American AI experts had already revealed that Nvidia’s computing chips pose mature “tracking and positioning” and “remote shutdown” technologies.