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Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov to visit China

Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov will visit China from Aug 27 to 29 at Premier Li Keqiang's invitation.

This is the first time for Aripov to make a formal visit to China. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li will meet with him respectively during his visit, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang.

Guo Shengkun, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee, along with Aripov, will hold the fifth meeting of the China-Uzbekistan intergovernmental cooperation committee.