Chinese president to visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran

President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran from Jan 19 to 23, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang announced late Friday.

Xi is invited respectively by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, said Lu in a press release.