Myanmar's lower house speaker to visit China

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Thura U Shwe Mann, speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw (the lower house) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, will pay an official good-will visit to China from Feb. 22 to 26, according to a press release from the National People's Congress (NPC) of China.

Leading a parliamentary delegation of the Pyithu Hluttaw, U Shwe Mann is to make the trip as a guest of Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, it said.