Finance Minister Jin
Renqing will fly to London for a meeting between finance
ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations plus China,
India, Brazil and South Africa (G8 plus four) planned for next
week.
According to a one-sentence statement released by
the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday, Jin will attend the meeting
at the invitation of his UK counterpart, Chancellor Gordon
Brown.
The ministers are reportedly scheduled to discuss
global economy and development.
The UK currently holds the rotating G8 presidency
and will host the G8 summit next month. China is serving as
president of both the meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and
central bank governors, and of Asian and European finance
ministers.
Jin and Brown have promised to coordinate efforts
on matters concerning international development and global poverty
reduction.
During Brown's visit to China in February, the two
ministers said their countries should strive to realize the UN’s
Millennium Development Goals.
Brown set out a list of proposals to meet the
goals, which were agreed in 2000 and include halving poverty and
disease by 2015.
(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2005)