On January 21, the United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce held a private entrepreneurs welcoming symposium in Beijing. Wang Yang, member of the Central Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He expressed the New Year’s condolences from the Party Central Committee and the State Council to the private entrepreneurs. Zhou Haijiang, vice chairman of the All-China General Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the chairman and CEO of HOdo Group, was invited to participate.

After the meeting, Zhou Haijiang said with excitement: "President Wang Yang once again discussed that private enterprises are "our own person" that had been said by General Secretary Xi Jinping and we are very touched. We assured that we must be "our own person". At the same time, he also said that in the future HOdo should focus on the main business, law-abiding management, and return to society. As long as we keep our faith, I firmly believe that the conditions for the development of the private economy will be better and better, and the stage for business will certainly become bigger and bigger.