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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will attend a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on September 15 via video link and deliver a speech, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. 

The premier will also attend a global entrepreneurs video special dialogue, spokesman Zhao Lijian said.

The WEF, a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, was conceived by Dr Klaus Schwab in 1971. 

The forum is best known for its annual meeting at the end of January in a mountain resort in Davos. In 2007, the foundation established the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also called Summer Davos, a gathering held annually in China and alternating between Dalian and Tianjin.

The history between WEF and China can be traced back to 1979, when the "European Management Forum," the WEF's former name, officially set up a cooperative relationship with China.