Li Changchun, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official, will pay goodwill visits to Sudan, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania from November 12 to 24, Guo Yezhou, spokesman for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said in Beijing Sunday.

Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, will visit the four African countries at the invitation of National Congress of Sudan, Namibia's South West Africa People's Organization, South African government and Revolutionary Party of Tanzania.

(Xinhua News Agency November 7, 2005)