BEIJING, July 3  -- Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will attend the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference 2014, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced here on Thursday.

The conference will be held in Guiyang, capital city of southwest China's Guizhou Province, from July 10 to 12.

Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, President of the Council of States of Switzerland's Federal Assembly Hannes Germann, Russian president's Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov, and Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Ham Lini will attend the conference, Hong said at a daily press briefing.