The head of South Korea's main opposition party will travel to China in October to attend a regional meeting of parliamentarians and meet senior Chinese officials, his aides said Tuesday.

Rep. Moon Jae-in, chairman of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, plans to join a session of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties to be held in Beijing from Oct. 14-16.

Sponsored by the Communist Party of China, the meeting will take place under the theme of "Rebuilding the Silk Road."

Moon will use the trip to "help strengthen the capability of Asia political party diplomacy and share opinions on peace and security on the Korean Peninsula in meetings with Chinese leaders," the party's spokesman Kim Sung-soo said.

The party is in consultations with the Chinese side over relevant details including whom to meet, he added.

It would be Moon's first trip to China as leader of NPAD, coming at the invitation of Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

They met in Seoul during Zhang's visit in June.

Meanwhile, Moon is scheduled to meet top Chinese and American envoys here--Amb. Qiu Guohong and Amb. Mark Lippert--at the National Assembly on Wednesday to exchange views on inter-Korean ties and other issues of mutual concern, according to NPAD. (Yonhap)