Beijing, April 16th—Wang Yajun, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), attended here today the Songkran Festival held for the leading cadre study group of Laos and the Lao Embassy in China. Wang sent new year greetings to the Lao comrades and expressed that recent years have seen frequent high-level mutual visits between the two parties and two countries, with political mutual trust being increasingly consolidated and practical cooperation in various areas such as economy and trade being continuously deepened. China-Laos relations have entered the best period in history. The CPC is willing to further strengthen communication and cooperation with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party to jointly guide China-Laos relations for greater development. Vandy Bouthasavong, Lao Ambassador to China, thanked the IDCPC for organizing the activity and expressed the willingness to contribute more to the in-depth development of the relations between the two parties and two countries.

Both sides also held the traditional ceremony of Baci-Su-Kwan and staged an art performance.

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