UNITED AIRLINES Shares closed down about 1% at $35.61 before the results were released and were down 1.37% in after-hours trading.

Xi called for the making of the southern metropolis into a “model city for a great, modern socialist country.”

The speech represented a high-profile backing of the companies and leaders in the so-called Greater Bay Area, a designation that’s meant to to push China into higher-quality manufacturing and better integrate the former colonies of Hong Kong and Macau into the mainland. 

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