President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the 17th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit via video on Nov 27, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech at the Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday via video link, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Friday.

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Xi will attend the summit at the joint invitation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Hua said.