Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning announces:

At the invitation of Yang Jiechi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, and Guo Shengkun, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CPC, Secretary Nikolai Patrushev of the Security Council of the Russian Federation will travel to China for the 17th round of China-Russia strategic security consultation and the 7th meeting of the China-Russia law-enforcement and security cooperation mechanism from September 18 to 19.