Overview
- Lee arrives in Beijing on Sunday for a Monday summit with Xi, then travels to Shanghai on Tuesday for a two-day program that includes historical visits and business events.
- Cheong Wa Dae says the talks target practical cooperation spanning supply-chain investment, critical minerals, the digital economy, climate, people-to-people exchanges, tourism and transnational crime.
- A signing ceremony for more than 10 MOUs is planned, and a roughly 200-member Korean business delegation—featuring the heads of Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor and LG—will pursue commercial deals.
- Lee will ask China to play a constructive role on peace and denuclearization, with Seoul reiterating respect for the one-China policy as tensions around Taiwan shape the regional backdrop.
- Seoul will raise China’s steel structures in the overlapping Yellow Sea zone and seek progress on easing unofficial curbs on Korean cultural content, though a large K-pop concert is not expected during this visit.