A New Year gathering was held in the northern border province of Lao Cai on January 29 evening, with a delegation from the provincial Party Organisation and authorities and their counterpart from Honghe county of China’s Yunnan province taking part.

VOV.VN - Localities in the northern mountainous border province of Lao Cai and Hekou district in China’s Yunnan province are striving to boost collaboration in economics, trade, and industrial parks moving forward, heard a working session held on December 31 in Lao Cai city.

The Department of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam’s northernmost province of Ha Giang and the Office of Foreign Affairs of China’s Yunnan province on December 25 held a ceremony at Marker 456 in Thuong Phung commune of Meo Vac district to launch a bilateral border inspection.

Border guards in Vietnam's Lao Cai province and their counterparts from Mengzi of China’s Yunnan province on December 7 held a meeting to review their bilateral patrols that have been resumed since November this year.

Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Vo Van Hoan received visiting President of Yunnan province's Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Liu Xiaokai on November 14, discussing cooperation between the two localities in the time to come.

Discussions on investment and trade, culture, tourism, health care, education, transportation and logistics, as part of the 10th conference on economic corridor cooperation involving Lao Cai, Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh of Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province, took place in Hanoi on November 13.

VOV.VN - A direct air route connecting Kunming city of China’s Yunnan province and Cam Ranh city in the southcentral Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa was put into operation on November 9.

Two cold-chain freight trains carrying fruits and vegetables left southwest China's Yunnan province for Laos and Vietnam respectively on October 16, marking the launch of international cold-chain train services on China-Laos, China-Vietnam routes.

The eighth border defence friendship exchange between Vietnam and China is scheduled to take place in Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai and its neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan on September 7 - 8.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on August 15 received Secretary of the provincial Party Committee of China’s Yunnan province Wang Ning on the occasion of the Vietnamese leader’s trip to Yunnan to attend the opening ceremony of the 7th China-South Asia Expo and the 27th Kunming Import and Export Fair.