Chinese Premier Li Qiang will chair the eighth Greater Mekong Subregion Summit, which includes China alongside the five other Mekong countries, to be held in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, from November 6 to 7, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Monday.

Leaders from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, along with Masatsugu Asakawa, president of the Asian Development Bank, will attend the summit, as stated by Mao.