Multilateralism, global challenges on G20 agenda

China would like to make joint efforts with all parties to safeguard multilateralism and deal with global challenges at the upcoming G20 summit to be attended by President Xi Jinping, a senior diplomat said Monday.

Zhang Jun, assistant minister of foreign affairs, said at a news conference that host country Japan and the international community are enthusiastically awaiting Xi's participation in the G20 summit in Osaka. Xi will travel to Japan on Thursday to attend the summit at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

It would be the seventh consecutive time that Xi attends or chairs the G20 summit, fully demonstrating the great attention that China pays to G20 cooperation and global governance, Zhang said.