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President Xi Jinping's special representative Yang Jiechi will visit the Republic of Korea on Thursday and Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang announced on Wednesday.

It is the first time for Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, to travel abroad in the capacity of director of the general office of the newly established Central Committee on Foreign Affairs.