The move will confirm the close ties between two communist-run neighbours
HANOI - Vietnam's top leader To Lam will visit China next week in his first foreign trip since his appointment as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party earlier in August, three officials familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Lam, who is also the state president of the Southeast Asian nation, is planning to arrive in China on Aug 18. He will meet with President Xi Jinping and other officials over the following two days, said two Vietnamese officials and one Hanoi-based diplomat, declining to be identified as the trip has not been officially announced.As state president since May, Lam, 67, has already visited Laos and Cambodia, in line with predecessors.
The country has no paramount leader, but the late Trong consolidated powers in the hands of the head of the party. Lam, a general and former minister of public security, may relinquish the presidency in the coming months, likely when parliament meets for a regular session in October, multiple Vietnamese and foreign officials said.
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