General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping pays State visit to Vietnam

At the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and his wife,President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong and his wife, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping and his wife paid a State visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from December 12 to 13, 2023.

The delegation included Professor Peng Liyuan, wife of Comrade Xi Jinping; comrades: Cai Qi, member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat, Director of the Central Office; Wang Yi, member of the Politburo, Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Wang Xiaohong, Secretary of the Secretariat, State Councilor, Deputy Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Minister of Public Security; Liu Jianchao, member of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central External Liaison Department; Jiang Jinquan, Director of the Central Policy Research Office; Zheng Sanjie, member of the Party Central Committee, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission; Wang Wendao, member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Commerce; Liu Ning, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; Wang Ning, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee; Hung Ba, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Vietnam; La Chieu Huy, Director of the Department of International Development Cooperation; Li Bin, Major General, Director of the Office of International Military Cooperation, Central Military Commission; Nong Dung, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs.

General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping was born in 1953; hometown: Phu Binh district, Shaanxi province, China. Comrade Xi Jinping joined the Communist Party of China in January 1974. He is a postgraduate student majoring in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Ideological and PoliticalEducation , Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tsinghua University and holds a Doctorate in Law; has a degree in Chemical Engineering.

Comrade Xi Jinping has gone through the process of studying and holding many working positions: From 1969 to 1975, he was an intellectual youth, Party cell secretary at Liangjiahe Company, Wen'anyi Commune, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province; from 1975 to 1979, he majored in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing; from 1979 to 1982, he was Secretary of the Office of the State Council, Office of the Central Military Commission; from 1982 to 1983, he was Deputy Secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee, Hebei Province; from 1983 to 1985, he was Secretary of the Zhengding County Party Committee, Hebei Province, concurrently First Political Commissar, First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Armed Forces Committee, Zhengding County, Hebei Province; 1985-1988: Standing member of the Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Mayor (Vice Chairman of the People's Committee) of Xiamen City, Fujian Province; 1988-1990: Secretary of the Ningde Municipal Party Committee, Fujian Province, and First Secretary of the Ningde Military Region Party Committee, Fujian Province; 1990-1993: Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress (Chairman of the People's Council) of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, and First Secretary of the Fuzhou Military Region Party Committee, Fujian Province; 1993-1995: Standing member of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee; Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, and First Secretary of the Fuzhou Military Region Party Committee; 1995-1996: Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee; Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou Municipal People's Congress, Fujian Province, and concurrently First Secretary of the Fuzhou Military Region Party Committee; 1996-1999: Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee; 1999-2000: Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Acting Governor (Chairman of the People's Committee) of Fujian Province, Deputy Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of the Nanjing Military Region and concurrently Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of Fujian Province; 2000-2002: Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Governor of Fujian Province, Deputy Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of the Nanjing Military Region and concurrently Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of Fujian Province (from 1998 to 2002, he studied part-time as a graduate student majoring in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Ideological and Political Education at the Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tsinghua University and obtained a Doctorate of Law degree); 2002: Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, acting Governor of Zhejiang Province, and concurrently Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of Zhejiang Province; 2002-2003: Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Governor, and First Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Military Region, Deputy Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of Nanjing Military Region, and Director of the National Defense Mobilization Committee of Zhejiang Province; 2003-2007: Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress, and concurrently First Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Military Region; 2007: Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and concurrently First Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Municipal Police District; 2007-2008: Member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the Central Party Secretariat, Principal of the Central Party School; 2008-2010: Member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice President of the People's Republic of China, Principal of the Central Party School; 2010-2012: Member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; Vice President of the People's Republic of China; Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China (State Military Commission); Principal of the Central Party School; 2012-2013: Member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, General Secretary of the Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Military Commission; Vice President of the People's Republic of China; Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China; from 2013 to present: Member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, General Secretary of the Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China; President of the People's Republic of China; Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China. Comrade Xi Jinping is an alternate member of the 15th Central Committee; member of the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Central Committees; member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th tenures.

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