Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other world leaders will attend the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2014, scheduled to be held next week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced on Tuesday. Themed "Asia's New Future: Identifying New Growth Drivers," the conference will be held in South China's Hainan Province from April 8 to 11.

Premier Li will make a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the conference, Hong Lei told the ministry's daily press briefing. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Kazakh Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Jung Hong-won, PM of Laos Thongsing Thammavong, Namibian PM Hage Geingob, Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif, Timor-Leste's PM Xanana Gusmao, Russian Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich and Vietnamese Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam will attend the forum, the Xinhua news agency quoted Hong as saying.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2014