Culture Minister Abdel Wahed el Nabawi will meet on Saturday with his Chinese counterpart Luo Shugang in Cairo to sign a number of cultural cooperation protocols.

The 2015-2018 executive program for cultural cooperation between the two countries will be signed as well, the ministry said in a statement.

The Chinese minister leads his country's delegation to the inauguration ceremony of the New Suez Canal on behalf of Chinese president Xi Jinping.