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Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm and his spouse arrive in Beijing on Sunday evening, continuing their state visit to China.— VNA/VNS Photo Trí Dũng |
BEIJING — General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee and State President Tô Lâm, his wife, and a high-ranking delegation of Việt Nam arrived in Beijing on Sunday evening, continuing their state visit to China from August 18-20.
The visit is made at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping and his spouse.
Departing from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, the plane carrying the Vietnamese delegation landed at Beijing Capital International Airport at 6.40 pm (local time).
They were greeted at the airport by Chinese officials, including Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Commission for Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chinese Ambassador to Việt Nam Xiong Bo, a large number of Chinese citizens, staff from the Vietnamese Embassy in China, members of the Vietnamese community, and Vietnamese students studying in China.
Later in the evening, Party General Secretary and President Lâm is set to visit the Vietnamese Embassy to meet with its staff, representatives of the Vietnamese community, and Vietnamese students in China.
The ongoing visit marks the first foreign trip by the top Vietnamese leader in his new role. It is a significant diplomatic event between Việt Nam and China this year, expected to have a profound impact on the development trend of relations between the two Parties and countries. — VNS
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Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Director of the Office of the CPC Central Committee’s Commission for Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Affair (right) and Vietnamese top leader Tô Lâm along with his spouse at the airport. — VNA/VNS Photo Trí Dũng |