Vietnamese top legislator to tour China

VGP - National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung will lead a high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese legislature to pay an official visit to China on December 23-27 at the invitation of Chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress Zhang Dejiang.

December 21, 2015 4:44 PM GMT+7

Earlier, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his spouse on November 6 visited Viet Nam.

Viet Nam and China established diplomatic ties in 1950 and since then the bilateral relations have thrived across the fields.

In 2014, two-way trade between Vietnam and China reached US$58.5 billion, up 16% against the previous year.

Viet Nam was the second biggest trade partner of China in ASEAN, while China was the ninth largest foreign investor in Viet Nam with a total registered capital of US$7.9 billion./.

By Khanh Phuong