Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), left Beijing Friday morning on a three-day official goodwill visit to Vietnam.
Li, also member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, was invited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam.
During the visit, Li will hold meetings or talks with leaders of the CPV, the Assembly and the Vietnam government, and exchange views on further developing Sino-Vietnamese good neighborly friendship relations and all-round cooperative relations.
Li's entourage includes his wife Zhu Lin; Member of the NPC Standing Committee, Vice-Chairman of the NPC Ethnic Affairs Committee and Chairman of the Sino-Vietnamese Friendship Group Yin Kesheng; Member of the NPC Standing Committee and Chairman of the Commission of Legislative Affairs of the NPC Standing Committee Gu Angran; Member of the NPC Standing Committee Jia Zhijie, among others.
Among those seeing Li and his entourage off at the Great Hall of the People were Vice-Chairman Tian Jiyun of the NPC Standing Committee, State Councilor Luo Gan, and other senior officials as well as the Vietnamese diplomatic envoy in China.
(Xinhua News Agency 09/07/2001)
