Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Sunday for visit to Paris and Africa.

Xi will attend the opening ceremony of the 21th UN climate change summit in Paris from November 29 till 30 at an invitation from French President Francois Hollande as well as French Foreign Minister and chair of the climate change conference Laurent Fabius.

The president will pay a state visit to Zimbabwe from Dec. 1 to 2 at an invitation from his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe.

The president will also pay a state visit to South Africa from Dec. 2 to 5 at the invitation of South African President Jacob Zuma, and chair the summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Johannesburg.

Source: MENA