A friendship festival on the Vietnamese-Chinese border will be held in Fangcheng city in China’s Guangxi province and Mong Cai city in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province from June 5-8.

According to the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO), the event’s organisers are expecting to attract people from the seven Vietnamese border provinces of Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Lai Chau and Dien Bien and the two neighbouring Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan.

The festival, which is taking place after the two countries completed their border demarcation and landmark planting in 2008, aims to encourage people to turn the Vietnamese-Chinese border into a symbol of peace, stability, friendship, cooperation and development and to boost the two countries’ comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership./.