Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), will pay official and good-will visits to Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia from May 17 to 31.

Wu will visit these countries at the invitation of Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Parliament Speaker Abdullah Tarmugi; Paul Henry Calvert, president of the Senate of the Australian Federal Parliament, and David Hawker, speaker of the Australian House of Representatives; Margaret Wilson, speaker of House of Representatives of New Zealand; and Ramli Ngah Talib, speaker of House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament.

Source: Xinhua