BEIJING, March 26 (Reuters) - China's President Xi

Jinping will meet with American business leaders in Beijing on

Wednesday, according to three sources with knowledge of the

matter, in a follow up to his November dinner with U.S.

investors in San Francisco.

The meeting was proposed by chief executive of U.S. insurer

Chubb, Evan Greenberg, said one of the sources who has

direct knowledge of the matter. Other attendees include Stephen

Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China

Relations, and Craig Allen, president of the U.S.-China Business

Council.

The meeting was first reported by the Wall Street Journal

last week.

The meeting is not part of the China Development Forum

agenda, which took place in Beijing March 24-25, two sources

said, and was deliberately scheduled for Wednesday to separate

it from the high-profile forum for senior foreign executives and

China's leaders.

China's State Council Information Office did not immediately

respond to a request for comment.

Officials who spoke at the opening of the forum this weekend

expressed confidence China would hit its economic targets,

including growth of about 5% this year, and pledged further

support for companies in strategically important sectors, an

area Xi has dubbed "new productive forces."

In November, Xi told American business leaders in San

Francisco that China is ready to be a partner and friend of the

U.S., and there is plenty of room for cooperation, in a bid to

overcome China's struggles to entice foreign investment.

(Reporting by Joe Cash and Antoni Slodkowski; Editing by

Lincoln Feast.)