Vietnamese, Chinese provinces hold joint border inspection

The Department of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam’s northernmost province of Ha Giang and the Office of Foreign Affairs of China’s Yunnan province on December 25 held a ceremony at Marker 456 in Thuong Phung commune of Meo Vac district to launch a bilateral border inspection.
Vietnamese, Chinese provinces hold joint border inspection ảnh 1The Vietnamese and Chinese delegates at the ceremony. (Photo: baohagiang.vn)

HaGiang (VNA) – The Department of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam’snorthernmost province of Ha Giang and the Office of Foreign Affairs of China’s Yunnanprovince on December 25 held a ceremony at Marker 456 in ThuongPhung commune of Meo Vac district to launch a bilateral border inspection.

Speakingat the event, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ha Giangprovince Do Quoc Huong said that the bilateral border inspection helped tightenthe solidarity and friendship between the two countries in general and the twolocalities in particular.

It also helped to create trust, enhance mutual understanding,and build the Vietnam-China border area of solidarity, friendship,cooperation, and further development.

Vietnamese, Chinese provinces hold joint border inspection ảnh 2The Vietnamese and Chinese delegates conduct the bilateral border inspection. (Photo: baohagiang.vn)

Afterthe ceremony, the delegations of the two provinces conducted a bilateral border inspection from Marker 449 to Marker 486. Thetwo sides inspected the field situation of the border and boundary markers; andthe implementation of legal documents on the Vietnam-China land border. They cleaned and painted someboundary markers and popularised their coordination in border management.

Bilateralborder inspection activities between Ha Giang and Yunnan provinces aim toconcretise the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnamand China.

The two sides cooperated and conducted patrols to identify the borderline and border markers on the Vietnam-China border as well as promoting communicationsfor border management authorities and people in border areas to betterunderstand the significance of the border demarcation and marker planting between the two countries./.

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