SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Tesla Inc Chief Government Elon Musk departed Shanghai Thursday morning, wrapping up a two-day journey to China during which he met authorities ministers, a key battery provider and visited the automaker’s greatest manufacturing hub.

Photographs of Musk’s go to to Tesla (NASDAQ:)’s Shanghai manufacturing unit late Wednesday confirmed him holding up a “Giga Shanghai” signal, flanked by lots of of employees together with head of world manufacturing Tom Zhu.

“A really rewarding day!,” Grace Tao, Tesla’s China-based public affairs chief, mentioned in a social media submit with the pictures.

Earlier within the journey, Musk met with China’s overseas, commerce and trade ministers in Beijing the place he additionally dined with the chairman of battery provider Modern Amperex Expertise Co Ltd (CATL).

Since his arrival in China on Tuesday morning, the U.S. billionaire has been showered with reward from the Chinese language public however Musk himself has been uncharacteristically silent and has but to make any public statements.

Little is understood of the conversations he had with Chinese language authorities officers to date.

The trade ministry solely mentioned Musk and its head exchanged views about improvement of electrical autos and related automobiles; the commerce ministry introduced he mentioned Tesla’s improvement in China with its minister.

The U.S. billionaire’s personal jet took off from Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport at 11:23 a.m. native time for Austin, Texas, the place Tesla’s international headquarters is positioned, based on flight-tracking platform Variflight.