General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay official good-will visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Vietnam between Oct. 28 and Nov. 2.

Guo Yezhou, spokesman for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, announced Thursday in Beijing that at the invitation of Kim Jong-il, General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and Chairman of the National Defence Commission, Hu will visit DPRK between Oct. 28 and 30.

At the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong, Hu will visit the Socialist Republic of Vietnam between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2.

Source: Xinhua