Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo arrives at the venue of the leaders' meeting of the Group of Eight and five leading emerging economies on Thursday, July 9th, 2009. Due to the riot in Xinjiang, President Hu Jintao had to return home. Dai Bingguo attended the meeting on behalf of the Chinese president in the Italian city of L'Aquila. [Photo: Xinhua]
On behalf of Chinese President Hu Jintao, State Councilor Dai Bingguo attended the leaders' meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) and five leading emerging economies (G5) on Thursday morning in the earthquake-torn Italian city of L'Aquila.
The state councilor was set to address the meeting to expound China's position on a wide range of global issues, like world economic recovery, climate change,energy security, food security and trade, according to Chinese diplomats.
Earlier on Wednesday, President Hu cut short his stay in Italy and returned to Beijing due to the situation in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
