BEIJING -- Communist Party of China (CPC) senior official Liu Yunshan will head a CPC delegation and pay official good-will visits to Romania and the Czech Republic from July 12 to 19, the International Department of the CPC Central Committee said Monday.

Liu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, has been invited by Chairman of Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party Liviu Dragnea, also speaker of the Chamber of Deputies; and Deputy Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Czech Republic Jan Hamacek, also speaker of the lower house of the Czech parliament.