Chinese Premier Li Keqiang left Beijing on Tuesday afternoon for an official visit to Laos and attending the 11th East Asia Summit in Vientiane at the invitation of his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith. [Special coverage]
Li will also attend the 19th China-ASEAN (10+1) leaders' meeting, a summit marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of dialogue relations between China and ASEAN, and the 19th ASEAN-China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (10+3) leaders' meeting from Sept. 6 to 9.