Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh paid a visit on
Sunday to central China's Hunan Province.
During the day, Bouasone visited Shaoshan, the hometown of late
Chinese leader Mao Zedong and the China National Hybrid Rice
Research and Development Center.
Bouasone arrived in Changsha, capital of Hunan on the evening of
August 25 and will leave the province for Kunming, capital of
southwest China's Yunnan Province on August 27. Before coming to
Hunan, he visited northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Bouasone started his seven-day official China tour in Beijing on
August 22. This is his first official visit to China since taking
office in June 2006.
(Xinhua News Agency August 27, 2007)
