Liu Bin, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, announced that leaders of more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations will attend the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, which will be held in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1. This will be the fifth time China hosts the SCO Summit, marking the largest gathering since the organization’s inception.

Invited foreign leaders include Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedow, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee Secretary and Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, among others.

International organization leaders invited include UN Secretary-General António Guterres, SCO Secretary-General Norlan Ermekbayev, Executive Committee Director of SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Olarbek Sharshiev, CIS Secretary-General Sergey Lebedev, ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn, CSTO Secretary-General Imangali Tasmagambetov, ECO Secretary-General Asad Khan, CICA Secretary-General Khairat Saribayev, Eurasian Economic Commission Chairman Bakytzhan Sagintayev, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Jin Liqun.