Apple's Tim Cook Visits Beijing for Business Opportunity

Photo taken on the morning of May 16th, 2016 shows Apple CEO Tim Cook walking into an Apple Store in Wangfujing, downtown Beijing with Didi president Liu Qing. [Photo: Tim Cook's Weibo Post]

Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently in Beijing to meet with business partners.

He was spotted with Liu Qing, head of China's leading taxi hailing and hitching service provider Didi Monday morning and walking into an Apple Store in Wangfujing, downtown Beijing.

Sources say they shared a random hitch using Didi's hailing service.

Apple last week invested 1 billion U.S. dollars in the ride-hailing platform Didi Chuxing.

Apple has invested heavily to expand its presence in China through Apple stores, environmental initiatives, and supply chains.

The latest Didi investment suggests the U.S. company is placing greater focus on app developers in China, now its second largest market.

Cook is also reportedly to meet high-level government officials and several internet companies while here in China.