At 10 a.m. today, the press center for the events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War held its first press conference.

Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei announced that, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, 26 foreign heads of state and government will attend China’s V-Day commemorations in Beijing.

They are: Russian President Vladimir Putin; Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni; Vietnamese President Luong Cuong; General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith; Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto; Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim; Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh; Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif; Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli; Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu; Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev; Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev; Tajik President Emomali Rahmon; Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov; Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov; Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko; Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev; Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan; Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso; Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa; Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic; Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico; Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban President; and Min Aung Hlaing, Acting President of Myanmar.

At the invitation of the Chinese government, speakers, deputy prime ministers, and high-level representatives from other countries, as well as heads of international organizations and former statesmen, will also attend the commemorations.

China has extended invitations to international friends who had made contributions to the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, or the family members of those who have since passed away. A total of 50 international friends or their families from 14 countries, including Russia, the U.S., the U.K., France, and Canada, will be in attendance.