Vietnamese tourist arrivals in China’s Yunnan province have surged this year, with group travel via cross-border rail routes becoming increasingly popular, especially through Yunnan's Hekou border gate.

Vinh Phuc wants to enhance trade and investment cooperation with Hekou county of China’s Yunnan province.

VOV.VN - A refrigerated truck carrying 2,700 fresh Vietnamese coconuts successfully cleared customs and entered China through the Hekou border gate of China’s Yunnan province, adjacent to Vietnam’s Lao Cai border gate, on October 15.

Trade officials from Vietnam’s northern border province of Lao Cai and Honghe county of the neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan visited the Mekong Delta province of Long An on April 23, seeking to form partnerships with local agricultural production, processing, and exporting companies.

The Vietnam-China trade exchange programme opened in Can Tho city on April 21, with 150 Mekong Delta and 13 Chinese firms taking part.

VOV.VN - The northern border province of Lao Cai is set to completely resume operation of border gates with the Chinese side as of January 8, said Ha Duc Thuan, vice director of the Management Board of Lao Cai Economic Zone, on January 6.

VOV.VN - China’s Hekou city and Vietnam’s Lao Cai city will meet this month to discuss the full opening of border gates in Lao Cai, according to Hoang Dang Khoa, chairman of the Lao Cai municipal administration.

Border guards at the Lao Cai International Border Gate, the northern province of Lao Cai, received 110 Vietnamese nationals handed over by the Hekou border checkpoint of China on September 28.

China has suspended the import of Vietnamese goods via its Hekou border gate that pairs with Lao Cai of Vietnam due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Chinese authorities on January 12 re-opened their Hekou International Border Gate – which pairs with Vietnam's Kim Thanh II border gate in the northern province of Lao Cai – for imported fresh fruits, including dragon fruit, and frozen foods from Vietnam.