President Xi Jinping meets with heads of foreign delegations attending the 13th meeting of Security Council Secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 22, 2018. He called for moving SCO security cooperation forward to a new level. (WU ZHIYI / CHINA DAILY)

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced on Monday. 

The summit is scheduled for June 9 to 10 in Qingdao, a coastal city in east China's Shandong province, said Wang.

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Leaders of SCO member states and observer states, as well as chiefs of relevant international organizations will attend the summit.  

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