BEIJING, May 12 -- President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Turkish President Abdullah Gul will pay a state visit to China respectively in May, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.

They will also attend the upcoming Shanghai summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing.

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Nazarbayev will visit China from May 19 to 22. President Gul's China visit is scheduled from May 16 to 21, Hua said.