Cerar will meet Chinese PM Li Keqiang and Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić to debate economic cooperation and upgrade political dialogue.

His office said the summit would be yet another opportunity for Slovenia to look for fresh FDI, which the government sees as one of its priorities.

Besides the summit, Serbia will host a business forum featuring over 2,000 executives from the 17 countries, among them representatives of 15 Slovenian firms.

Belgrade meetings will be an opportunity for Central and East European countries to boost their cooperation with China.

The world's second largest economy would like to invest US$10bn in the region, especially in infrastructure.

The summit comes less than a month after Chinese Deputy PM Wang Yang visited Slovenia with a strong business delegation.