President has stimulated scientific connections

President Xi Jinping has a good understanding of big data and its social impact, said a top London scientist who met him during Xi's historic state visit to the United Kingdom in 2015.

Guo Yike, director of the Data Science Institute at Imperial College London, recalled the clarity of Xi's thinking.

"He certainly had a clear engineer's view of things, particularly in data analysis methods," Guo said. "President Xi engaged in all the applications and responded very nicely about my research topics. I could clearly see the engineering background of this leader."