Within a week from today, Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Shabaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania, and German Prime Minister Schultz will successively visit China. At the regular press conference of the Foreign Ministry held last week, the spokesman introduced the details.
On last Wednesday, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, State Councilor and Foreign Minister, met with ASEAN envoys to China in Beijing. This was Wang Yi’s first foreign affairs activity after the end of the 20th National Congress. “This shows that China attaches importance to ASEAN.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said on the 27th.
On the second day of meeting with ASEAN envoys to China, Wang Yi held a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and chaired the fourth meeting of the Political and Diplomatic Sub Committee of the Central Saudi High Commissioner with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal. On the 28th, Wang Yi also received a visit from US Ambassador Burns to China.