BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 12th BRICS summit, the 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting and the 15th Group of 20 (G20) summit in the following two weeks in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying made the announcement here on Thursday.

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The three summits will play a leading role in strengthening cooperation against the pandemic, promoting world economic recovery, improving global economic governance and boosting regional economic exchanges, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin

According to Hua, Xi will attend the BRICS summit on Nov 17 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He will attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on Nov. 20 at the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. He will attend the G20 summit, to be held from Nov 21 to 22, at the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

All the above meetings will be held via video link, Hua said.

As COVID-19 rages across the globe and the world economy is in deep recession, the three summits will play a leading role in strengthening cooperation against the pandemic, promoting world economic recovery, improving global economic governance and boosting regional economic exchanges, said Wang Wenbin, another spokesperson for the ministry, in response to a question on China's expectation from the summits.

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According to Wang, during the three summits, Xi will deliver speeches to detail China's position and propose initiatives on cooperation.

BRICS is the acronym for an emerging-market bloc that groups Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.