Liu Jianchao, the newly-appointed head of the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party, is scheduled to visit Nepal next Sunday.

The visit of Jianchao in Nepal will be for 4 days.He is scheduled to meet the President and the Prime Minister as well as the top leaders of the CPN-UML and the Maoist Center during the visit.

He was formerly the chief spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the former director- general of its Information Department.