Border guard units from the northern Vietnamese province of Dien Bien and the Chinese province of Yunnan carried out a joint patrol on July 7 to promote coordination in border management and protection, maintaining security and order in border areas.

The international road passenger transport route between the Mu La Thang border gate in Vietnam’s Lai Chau province and the Jin Shuihe border gate in China’s Yunnan province has been opened to traffic following a ceremony on June 13.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam has visited and held meetings with the administrations and customs departments of China’s Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in an effort to facilitate farm produce exports via northern border gates of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Chinese localities bordering Vietnam such as Guangxi and Yunnan received their first groups of Vietnamese tourists after a three-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - China remains ready to maintain exchanges with Vietnamese localities, especially localities which share a border with Yunnan, said Wang Ning, secretary of Yunnan province's Party Committee while meeting with Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on March 28 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has highly appreciated the positive development in the Vietnam – China relations in recent times, partly contributed by the effective cooperation between border localities of the two countries.

Four northwestern border provinces of Vietnam, namely Lao Cai, Ha Giang, Lai Chau, and Dien Bien, and China’s Yunnan province on March 27 convened the 3rd annual conference between secretaries of their provincial party committees.

Despite the high cooperation potential, trade between Vietnam and Yunnan province of China has remained modest at only US$3.2 billion in 2022, a very small amount of the US$175.6 billion in trade between Vietnam and China in the year, according to Vu Ba Phu, director of the Trade Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Border guards stationed in Vietnam’s northern province of Dien Bien coordinated with their counterpart in China’s Yunnan province held a joint patrol along the shared border on January 12.

Vietnam has maintained its economic recovery momentum in 2022 despite many difficulties, Zhao Ruyi, a scholar from the Institute of International Relations at China’s Yunnan University, wrote in an article recently posted on the Tengxun website.