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Top leaders of Vietnam have sent messages of congratulations to their Chinese counterparts on China’s 68th National Day (October 1).

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh and his Chinese counterpart Gao Yan co-chaired the 10th meeting of the Vietnam-China Committee for Economic and Trade Cooperation in Hanoi, focusing on measures to reduce Vietnam’s trade deficit with China.

A get-together took place in Ho Chi Minh City in the morning of September 22 to mark the 68th National Day of China (October 1, 1949 - 2017).

Nearly 50 businesses from Fujian province of China and Vietnam’s northeastern province of Quang Ninh gathered at a seminar in Ha Long city on September 19.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has assured Liu Yunshan, Politburo Standing Committee member that Vietnam attaches special importance to ties with China.

The China-Vietnam investment promotion forum took place in Beijing, China, on September 18.

A flight connecting Hanoi and Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi province, was conducted on September 17, launching the first direct air route between the two localities.

Aquatic product exporters should devise proper strategies to make inroads into to China – a potential but choosy market, experts said at a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 30.

Exports of glutinous rice to China, Vietnam’s biggest rice importer, are stagnating, despite overseas shipments of the commodity soaring 34 percent in the first half of 2017.

A visa division was established at the Youyi Guan border gate, the largest one along the China-Vietnam borderline, on July 30 in order to facilitate foreigners’ visa application at the border crossing, the Guangxi newspaper reported.

Taiwan (China) will open 70 vocational training courses for 2,234 Vietnamese students in 2017, Taiwanese Deputy Minister of Education Lin Teng-Chiao said at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on July 21.

An international cycling race joined by Vietnamese and Chinese cyclists wrapped up in Lao Cai city, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on July 9 after the two days of competition.

Vietnam is a leading trade partner of China’s Guangzhou city, Guangdong province, in ASEAN, said Luo Zheng, director of the Comprehensive Division of the Commission of Commerce of the municipal government, on July 4.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on June 28 sent a greeting message to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China (July 1, 1997-2017).

An event to promote Vietnam’s financial services was recently held in Nanning city in China’s southwestern province of Guangxi, gathering nearly 100 representatives from China, Vietnam and Thailand.

China, as a big country in the region and the world, needs to act responsibly and constructively in the maintenance of peace and stability in the region as well as in the East Sea on the basis of complying with international law, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said.

The fourth Vietnam-China border defence friendship exchange programme will be held in the northern bordering province of Lai Chau and Yunnan province of China from June 20-22.

Exchanges and cooperation between the youth are a foundation for China-Vietnam relations, Vice President of China Li Yuanchao told a delegation of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee on May 22.

President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception for Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan in Hanoi on May 20,.

Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army Luong Cuong had a meeting in Hanoi on May 5 with Miao Hua, Political Commissar of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy