A notice from China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday has said that China’s President Xi Jinping will participate in the Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ summit in Rome on October 30-31 via video link.
It was also revealed that he will make a speech at the summit.
Xi who has not left China since early 2020 due to the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic, is among handful of other key leaders from wealthy G20 nations, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who will not attend in person.