<span style="color: #222222;">China's President Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit at the invitation of President Joe Biden. This will be the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new U.S. administration.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Biden has invited dozens of world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit, which starts tomorrow, since bringing the United States back into the 2015 Paris Agreement on cutting global carbon emissions.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Hua Chunying, spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry, said in a statement today that, Xi will attend the summit via video and will deliver what he termed as an important speech.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Alaska last month, U.S. and Chinese officials held the first high-level in-person talks, which bristled with rancor and yielded no diplomatic breakthroughs.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">But the two countries, the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, have rediscovered a common interest in battling climate change.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Last week, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry traveled to Shanghai to meet with his Chinese counterpart in the first high-level visit to China by a Biden administration official. Both agreed on concrete actions "in the 2020s" to reduce emissions.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The talks also marked a resumption of climate dialog halted during the Donald Trump administration, who withdrew from the Paris agreement.</span>