MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday he would visit the Fujian province in China to inaugurate a school building named after his late mother, Soledad.

Speaking before a group of Filipino-Chinese businessmen at Malacañang, the President said the building, which is inside a university, aims to honor his mother.

"I'm proceeding to Fujian because they --- sa University Fujian they built a building in honor of my mother,” he said in his speech.

The President’s mother was a public school teacher in their hometown Davao City. She passed away in 2012 at the age of 95.

Duterte said the building will be used by foreign students invited to study in China.

The President is set to visit China later this month. It will be his fifth visit to China since assuming the presidency in 2016.