China's commercial minister leaves for WTO's ministerial conference

BEIJING, July 19 (Chinese media) -- China's Minister of Commerce Chen Deming left

Beijing on Saturday for Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the World Trade

Organization's small-scale ministerial conference.

Discussion will focus on agriculture, manufacture industry, service

industry, trade rules, and intellectual property rights, said the Ministry of

Commerce on its website.

Representatives from more than 30 countries including China, the U.S.,

India, and Brazil along with the European Union are expected to take part in the

conference.

Vice commercial minister Yi Xiaozhun, vice agricultural minister Niu Dun,

and officials from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry

of Finance will also participate in the conference.

The ministerial conference, summoned by the WTO Director-General Pascal

Lamy, will start from July 21.