Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, and Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are set to hold talks in Pyongyang on Monday afternoon.
Xi arrived earlier on the day for a two-day state visit to the country.
Kim and his wife Ri Sol Ju welcomed Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan at the airport.
The DPRK leader held a grand welcome ceremony for Xi at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.
Xi, Kim to hold talks in Pyongyang
Chinese stocks closed lower on Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 1.7 percent to 3,959.34 points.
The Shenzhen Component Index closed 3.22 percent lower at 14,821.19 points.
The combined turnover of stocks covered by these two indices reached 2.79 trillion yuan (about 409.54 billion U.S. dollars), down from 3.07 trillion yuan on the previous trading day.
Computing hardware, semiconductor chips and non-ferrous metals stocks suffered major losses, while engineering machinery, oil and gas, and banking sectors notched gains.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, lost 3.69 percent to close at 3,811.79 points Monday.
Chinese shares close lower Monday
