BEIJING, Jan. 17 -- Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang will attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and visit Switzerland and the Netherlands from Jan. 19 to 24, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.

Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will go on the trip at the invitation of Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the WEF, and the governments of Switzerland and the Netherlands, said a spokesperson for the ministry.