Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with his US counterpart Donald Trump in South Korea tomorrow, China's foreign ministry has announced.
They will exchange views on bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest, China's foreign ministry said in a statement.
China said the leaders will have "in-depth" talks on "major issues".
"We are willing to work together with the US side to ensure that this meeting yields positive outcomes, provides new guidance, and injects new momentum into the stable development of China-US relations," foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a regular news conference.
Watch: Trump hopes he can make a deal with Xi at meeting
Mr Trump said he expected their first face-to-face meeting of his second term to result in the United States lowering tariffs imposed on China in relation to fentanyl.
"President Xi of China is coming tomorrow here and we're going to be, I hope, making a deal, I think we’re going to have a deal.
"I think it will be a good deal for both and that’s really a great result. That’s better than fighting, and going through all sorts of problems," Mr Trump said.
The meeting will take place on the sidelines of a summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which is taking place in the city of Gyeongju.
Mr Trump said earlier he expected a "lot of problems" to be solved with President Xi in their talks on dialling down their hugely damaging trade war.
He also said he was not able to arrange a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the peninsula, ending fierce speculation over a possible summit.
Mr Trump had said he would "love to meet" Mr Kim during his Asia trip, which would have been their first meeting since the US leader's previous term in the White House.
North Korea has not responded publicly to the invitation.
Just hours before Mr Trump began a visit to South Korea, North Korea announced it had test-fired cruise missiles off its western coast in a message to its "enemies".
"I know Kim Jong Un very well ... we really weren't able to work out timing," Mr Trump said.
Mr Trump added he would aim to "straighten out" tensions between North Korea and South Korea as he met Seoul's President Lee Jae Myung for a summit.
President Lee, whose country remains technically at war with North Korea, hailed M Trump's invitation to Mr Kim, saying it had created "significant sense of warmth and peace on the Korean peninsula".
Mr Trump said earlier he expected to meet with Kim in the "not too distant future".
"At some point, we'll be involved with North Korea. I think they'd like to, and I'd like to," he told reporters on Air Force One.
Mr Kim met President Trump three times for high-profile summits during the US leader's first term.
The duo's last and impromptu meeting took place at Panmunjom, in the DMZ which separates the two Koreas.
It was hastily arranged after Mr Trump extended an invitation to Mr Kim on Twitter a day prior.
That event saw the two leaders shake hands over the concrete slabs dividing North and South before Mr Trump walked a few paces into Pyongyang's territory, becoming the first US president ever to set foot on North Korean soil.
But talks collapsed over just how much of its nuclear arsenal the North was willing to give up and what Pyongyang would get in return.
Since then, North Korea has repeatedly declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear state.
