On Friday, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Vietnamese President To Lam boarded a special train in Nanning, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, for his return home, concluding a four-day visit to China, showed a video released by Chinanews.com on Friday.
The relatively uncommon way of departure also underscored the close ties between the two neighboring countries, as Vietnam can be reached directly by rail from Guangxi, which borders the Southeast Asian nation, Chinese observers said.
Singaporean newspaper Lianhe Zaobao noted in a Friday’s report on his China visit, saying that the Vietnam’s top leader took China’s high-speed rail twice. It described that such long-distance high-speed rail travel by a visiting foreign leader across thousands of kilometers from northern to southern China as highly unusual, with the combined journey time of around 12 hours setting a record among visiting foreign leaders to China.
Upon his arrival in Beijing on Tuesday, Lam took a high-speed train to visit Xiong’an New Area. He departed Beijing by high-speed train for Guangxi on Thursday morning and arrived in the autonomous region after around 10 hours of travel.
