Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said?in Beijing?Tuesday that several leaders of foreign countries are to attend the first China-Eurasia Expo in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva, Azerbaijan's Vice Premier Abid Sharifov, and Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Aset Isekeshev are scheduled to attend the expo, at the invitation of the organizing committee of the expo, Ma said in a press release.

The expo will be held from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5.