BEIJING -- Some Foreign leaders will attend Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2012 in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Friday.

The leaders include Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai, Hong told a regular press conference.

The Boao Forum for Asia, an economic forum attended by regional senior officials, economists and business people, will be held in Hainan's coastal resort town of Boao from April 1 to 3.