Veteran Vietnamese revolutionary leader Tran Duc Luong, who served as State President from August 1997 to November 2007, passed away in Hanoi on May 20 at the age of 88.
Chinese President Xi Jinping extended condolences to General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam and Vietnamese President Luong Cuong, hailing Comrade Tran Duc Luong as an outstanding party and state leader of Vietnam who made important contributions to the country’s development and its cause of Doi Moi (reform). He added that, as an old friend of the Chinese people, he made unremitting efforts to promote the development of relations between the two parties and the two countries.
The Vietnamese newspaper Nhân Dân featured extensive coverage, including a special communique, brief biography, and details of condolence messages sent by leaders of Laos, China, Cambodia, Cuba and Russia.
The following article was originally published by the Xinhua News Agency.
BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday extended condolences to General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam and Vietnamese President Luong Cuong over the death of former Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong.
In his message, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, expressed profound condolences and extended sincere sympathies to Tran Duc Luong’s family on behalf of the CPC, the Chinese government and the Chinese people.
Xi hailed Comrade Tran Duc Luong as an outstanding party and state leader of Vietnam who made important contributions to the country’s development and its cause of Doi Moi (reform).
As an old friend of the Chinese people, Comrade Tran Duc Luong made unremitting efforts to promote the development of relations between the two parties and the two countries, Xi said.
Xi expressed his belief that under the strong leadership of the CPV Central Committee headed by Comrade To Lam, the party, government and people of Vietnam will surely turn their grief into strength and continue to achieve new accomplishments in the cause of socialist construction.
