By Our Reporter
ABUJA (PRECISE POST) – The White House has released the list of invited guests for a state dinner being hosted in honour of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Madame Peng Liyuan, with US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other senior American officials among those expected.
The guest list, distributed on September 24, 2026, and released on the official X handle of the White House Press Poll Report on Friday, also features several of the world’s most prominent business leaders, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Apple Chairman Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Other technology and corporate executives listed include NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, Dell CEO Michael Dell, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Citi CEO Jane Fraser, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman.
The list also includes Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Jim Taiclet, GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods and Visa CEO Ryan McInerney.
On the Chinese side, the invited guests include Cai Qi, a member of the CPC Political Bureau Standing Committee and Chief of Staff to President Xi; Wang Yi, a member of the CPC Political Bureau; Vice Premier He Lifeng; Zheng Shanjie, Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission; Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce; Ma Zhaoxu, Executive Vice Foreign Minister; and Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng.
The list further includes several senior US government officials, among them Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Attorney General Todd Blanche, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are also listed, alongside Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other members of Congress.
Media and public figures on the list include Fox News host Bret Baier, Fox News television presenter Laura Ingraham and Fox News host Jesse Watters.
Members of the Trump family listed as guests include Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Tiffany Trump, Michael Boulos, Viktor Knavs and Arabella Kushner.
The guest list also includes Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
The statement also names representatives from major international companies, including LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan.
The White House document identifies the gathering as a state dinner and lists the invited guests, including spouses and other accompanying family members, for the event.
