On November 11, 2010, the press center of the Chinese delegation held a briefing for Chinese and foreign media in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (ROK). Ma Zhaoxu, spokesman of the Chinese delegation and Director-General of the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry chaired the briefing. Chen Xu, Director-General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences of the Foreign Ministry, Zheng Xiaosong, Director-General of the International Department of the Ministry of Finance, Yu Jianhua, Director-General of the Department of International Trade and Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce, and Zhang Tao, Director-General of the International Department of the People's Bank of China, were invited to the briefing.

The five officials introduced President Hu Jintao's bilateral meetings with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev respectively. They elaborated the Chinese government's policy and stance on attending the fifth G20 Summit and explained details of the four goals the Chinese government tries to push the Summit to achieve. They also answered questions of journalists about the following topics, i.e. the strong, sustained and balanced growth of world economy, developed countries' proposal on rebalancing global economy and that developing countries should make up for the gap of global demand, the Fed's QE2 policy, the current account quantitative index proposed by the US government, how to regulate "hot money" inflow, how to accelerate the international financial system reform and increase of China's quota shares and corresponding responsibility in the IMF.

The one-and-half-hour briefing drew close attention from the Chinese and foreign media. About 80 journalists from over 50 Chinese and foreign media attended the briefing.