Chinese state councillor to meet with Vietnam officials

Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi is set to meet with senior Vietnamese officials in Hanoi, the capital city, on Wednesday. During the two-day visit, Yang is expected to meet with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Mihn during an annual bilateral event. Issues on the agenda include the recent tensions in the South China Sea.

This visit will be the highest-level meeting between the two governments since Vietnam's provocative actions around a Chinese oil rig triggered a spat last month.

Yang told his counterpart in Vietnam in a phone call that Vietnam should stop harassing China's drilling operations in early May.

Yang will also meet with the General Secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung.