Ships 09 and 17 of Brigade 171 under Naval Region 2 docked at the brigade’s port in Ho Chi Minh City’s Rach Dua ward on November 25, completing the 39th joint patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin between the Vietnamese and Chinese navies.

The border guard command in the northwestern province of Lao Cai has coordinated with the Honghe border management unit, the Hekou entry-exit inspection station in China’s Yunnan province, to conduct joint law enforcement patrols along the shared border.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a decision approving a plan to build police waterway ports and stations nationwide, alongside the procurement of patrol vessels for the waterway police force, with the aim of strengthening security, crime prevention, and rescue operations across Vietnam’s inland and coastal waterways.

The Border Guard Command of the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien and China’s Mengzi Border Guard Region launched their 2025 bilateral patrol on May 15 at the border demarcation line of the A Pa Chai – Long Phu border crossing in Sin Thau commune, Muong Nhe district of the Vietnamese province.

VOV.VN - The Border Guard of Vietnam’s Cao Bang Province, and the Border Defense Force of China’s Guangxi region launched a joint patrol along several border sections of the Vietnam-China land border on November 30.

Vietnam’s Coast Guard Ships CSB 8004 and CSB 8003 docked at Squadron 11 Port in the northern city of Hai Phong, successfully concluding a joint patrol mission with the China Coast Guard.

The Lai Chau provincial Border Guard and the Honghe border management team under the Jin Shuihe border immigration checkpoint of China conducted a joint law enforcement patrol along their shared border on September 27.

The Border Guards High Command of the northern province of Lao Cai and the Honghe Border Management Unit, the Entry-Exit Inspection Station in China’s Yunnan province conducted a joint patrol along the border areas they are responsible for on August 28.

The coast guards of Vietnam and China on May 22 conducted their joint patrol in the northern Gulf of Tonkin, covering the waters off Mong Cai city in Quang Ninh province and Dongxing and Fangchenggang cities in China’s Guangxi province.

This year’s first joint patrol of the Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) and the China Coast Guard (CCG) in the vicinity of the countries’ demarcation line in the Gulf of Tonkin was wrapped up on April 29.