US National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers will visit China next week for talks on bilateral relations, China announced Thursday.
Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon will visit China September 5-8, foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
The National Economic Council is a key White House policy-making body.
Jiang gave no further details, such as which Chinese leaders would meet the two US officials.
Jiang also said former US president Jimmy Carter would visit China from September 5-10, travelling to Beijing, Shanghai and Hunan province.
Carter last week travelled to China's neighbour North Korea to bring home an American teacher who had been imprisoned there.
But he also met North Korea's number two leader, Kim Yong-Nam, who voiced support for resuming long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks hosted by Beijing.
Jiang said Carter would attend a pair of conferences but did not mention any meetings between the former US president and Chinese officials.
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