Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh and Colonel Zhen Zhong Xing

PANO – Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of National Defence, received the outgoing Chinese defence attaché Colonel Zhen Zhong Xing, in Hanoi on September 24th.

The Chinese officer thanked the assistance of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence during his tenure in the country and pledged to do his utmost to nurture the friendly relations between the two armies.

In turn, the Vietnamese host highly valued Colonel Zhen Zhong Xing’s contributions and considered their defence cooperation a prominent pillar in the time-honoured Vietnam-China ties.

General Vinh urged the two armies to continually build the mutual trust and cooperation to contribute to peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world.

Translated by Van Hieu