Hu to attend G20 summit on crisis

President Hu Jintao will attend the G20 summit on the global financial crisis slated for next Saturday in Washington DC, the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday.

"At the invitation of US President George W. Bush, President Hu Jintao will attend the G20 summit on financial markets and the world economy on November 15," spokesman Qin Gang said.

The summit, called by Bush in mid-October, has been compared to Bretton Woods, the international meeting at a New Hampshire mountain resort in 1944 that led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund.