Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend Climate Ambition Summit on December 12 via video link and deliver a speech, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Friday.

Xi will attend the summit at the invitation of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Hua added.

The United Nations, United Kingdom, and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy, will co-host the virtual summit to mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement.