Hanoi, Sept. 1 -- State President Luong Cuong on September 1 hosted a reception for Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of China, who is on an official visit to Vietnam to attend celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2), and to co-chair the first meeting of the cooperation committee between the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) and the NPC. Both host and guest underlined the importance of Vietnam - China relations in each country's overall foreign policy, and agreed that the traditional friendship and close ties between the...