President Xi attends welcoming ceremony in Hanoi for state visit

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Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a welcoming ceremony held by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Hanoi, Vietnam on Sunday. 

Xi arrived in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi at noon to start his official state visit to the southeast Asian country after the conclusion of the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Da Nang.

It is Xi's first state visit after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October. It also marks Xi's second visit to Vietnam as China's head of state and top CPC leader.

The visit is at the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang.

Vietnam is the first leg of Xi's two-nation Asia tour, which will also take him to Laos on Monday.