Guo Jinlong, one of China's most senior politicians, is to visit Malta tomorrow and on Wednesday.

Mr Guo, a member of the political bureau of the China Communist Party central committee, will have talks tomorrow with the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.

He will meet Opposition leader Simon Busuttil on Wednesday and will also make a courtesy call on President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca.

Mr Guo is the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing. Between 2008 and 2012 he served as the Mayor of Beijing and during the 2008 Olympics served as the executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG).

Before his career in Beijing, Guo served as the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region between 2000 and 2004, and Party Secretary of Anhui Province from 2004 to 2007.

 

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