BEIJING, March 12 -- Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, will pay goodwill visits to Mexico, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru and Samoa from March 19 to April 5.

Li will pay the visits at the invitation of the governments of the five nations, announced Guo Yezhou, spokesman of the CPC International Department, on Monday.