Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announces:

President Xi Jinping will attend the Opening Ceremony of the Ninth Asian Winter Games in Harbin on February 7 and hold a welcoming banquet for foreign leaders attending the Opening Ceremony.

The foreign leaders attending the Opening Ceremony in China are: Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, and National Assembly Speaker of the ROK Woo Won-shik, among others.