Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with then Lao prime minister Thongloun Sisoulith at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 6, 2020. Sisoulith is currently president of Laos. (Photo: Xinhua)

BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president, will pay a state visit to China from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 at the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president.

Hu Zhaoming, spokesperson for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the announcement on Thursday.