Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 22 to 25 at the invitation of U.S. President Barack Obama, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Wednesday morning.

At the invitation of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Xi will visit the U.N. headquarters in New York to attend a series summits to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations from September 26 to 28, according to the spokesperson Lu Kang.

(Xinhua News Agency September 16, 2015)