Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang announces:

At the invitation of the ROK President Lee Myung Bak, Tajikistani President Rakhmon and Turkmenistani President Berdymukhamedov, President Hu Jintao will pay state visits to the three countries from August 25 to 30, and attend the 8th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held in Dushanbe, capital city of Tajikistan on August 28.