Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli will visit Vietnam on July 16-18, the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

Zhang Gaoli, born in 1946, is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China.

He served as the Communist Party Secretary of Tianjin between 2007 and 2012, and the Party Secretary in the economic powerhouse of Shangdong province between 2002 and 2007.

He has assumed the post of Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China since March 2013.

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