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Vietnamese and Chinese businesses discussed the trade of farm produce and food during a video conference on May 26.

Vietnam and China are going to hold several teleconferences in the next few days to promote the trade of agricultural products and specialties.

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai now has quite favorable infrastructure to become a "bridge" on the Kunming (China)-Lao Cai-Hanoi-Hai Phong-Quang Ninh Economic Corridor.

The ninth conference on economic corridor cooperation of five provinces and cities, namely Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh and Lao Cai of Vietnam and China’s Yunnan is underway in the northern province of Quang Ninh from October 24 – 26.

Chinese-based Ruili Airlines on September 30 opened a route between Vietnam’s northern port city of Hai Phong and Kunming city in China’s Yunnan province.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recommended the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai to make efforts to be named among top 15 developed localities in Vietnam while meeting local leaders on July 20.

The northwestern mountainous province of Lao Cai, known for its picturesque mountains, rivers, waterfalls and rich culture of ethnic hill tribes, welcomed nearly 500,000 visitors each month in the first half of 2019.

Myanmar has plans to export 500 million USD worth of rice to China through barter trading system later this year, according to Xinhua news agency.

Forty Vietnamese enterprises will join a business trip to explore export opportunities in the Chinese cities of Nanning and Kunming from June 10-13.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has hailed the importance of the ongoing visit by Governor of Yunnan province Ruan Chengfa to promoting bilateral ties, especially between Yunnan and Vietnam’s border areas, and the Vietnam-Yunnan economic cooperation corridor.

The northern port city of Hai Phong joined hands with China’s Yunnan province to provide free eye examinations and cataract operations for 70 patients at the Viet-Tiep Friendship Hospital in the Vietnamese city on May 29.

Thailand’s tourism sector is expected to get a windfall from the trade war between China and the US as Chinese tourists are looking to shorten their long haul flights to visit closer destinations instead.

The northern midland province of Phu Tho should use industrial development to drive its growth, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has said.

Krabi province on southern Thailand's west coast has welcomed passengers on the first Kunming - Krabi flight at its airport.

A pilot passenger road transport route through Vietnam’s Hai Phong city and Hanoi and China’s Kunming city has been opened, expected to help promote trading activities between the two countries.

The customs cooperation between Vietnam’s northern provinces of Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Ha Giang, and Hai Phong city and China’s Kunming has proven successful, reaping many positive outcomes.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan hosted a reception in the city on July 6 for head of the Publicity Department at the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee Huang Kunming.

Export value of aquatic products was estimated at 732 million USD in June, bringing the figure for the first half of the year to 3.94 billion USD, up 10.5 percent annually, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended the opening ceremony of the 5th China – South Asia Expo (CAS Expo) and the 25th China Kunming Import and Export Commodities Fair in Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan province on June 14.

More than 5 billion USD is needed to build a railway linking the Lao capital of Vientiane with Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam, according to research conducted under a technical support project for the railway’s feasibility study.