(VOVWORLD) -As General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping's Special Representative, China's top political advisor Wang Huning will go to Vietnam to mourn the passing of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, a spokesperson for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee announced on Wednesday.
 Wang Huning, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Photo: Xinhua News Agency) |
Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will lead a CPC delegation to participate in the mourning activities on Thursday and Friday in Hanoi, said spokesperson Hu Zhaoming.
On July 20, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President, paid his last respects to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing.