The prime ministers of South Korea and Singapore will be among the world leaders attending this month’s Boao Forum for Asia, three sources said, adding to a growing string of leaders from developed economies who have visited China this year.
The annual conference is scheduled to be held in Boao, Hainan province, from March 24 to 27, its organiser announced earlier.
Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai’s most recent trip to China was in June, when he met President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang and attended the Annual Meeting of the New Champions – also known as Summer Davos – in Tianjin.
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok will be following in the footsteps of his country’s president, Lee Jae Myung, who visited China for four days in January amid a revival in bilateral ties.
Other details of the two leaders’ itineraries in China have yet to be confirmed, the sources said.
In the past two months, the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Canada and the chancellor of Germany have visited China. Meanwhile, the White House has announced that US President Donald Trump will travel to China from March 31 to April 2.
The annual Boao Forum, inaugurated 25 years ago, is a high-level platform at which political and business leaders can foster regional ties.
