China will spare no efforts to make French President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit a great success, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said yesterday.

Sarkozy's three-day visit from November 25 will be "a great event for China-France relations," Liu said.

Though it will be the French president's first China visit since assuming office in May, he has already met with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao - on the sidelines of the G 8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June.