Friendship Pass, Witness of Sino-Vietnamese Friendship, Cooperation

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Friendship Pass, Witness of Sino-Vietnamese Friendship, Cooperation

Zhong Zicai, from Kafeng Village, at the foot of Youyi Guan, or Friendship Pass, in Pingxiang City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has crossed the pass many times in his 61 years.

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Zhong Zicai, from Kafeng Village, at the foot of Youyi Guan, or Friendship Pass, in Pingxiang City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has crossed the pass many times in his 61 years.

A beer seller married to a Chinese woman living in Vietnam he has watched the development of friendship and cooperation between China and Vietnam and has seen his roadside business boom since the 1980s.

The Friendship Pass has a history of over 2,000 years and over it China transported assistance in various forms to Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to support local people's fight against foreign forces.

"The peaceful environment and preferential policies have created good conditions for us to do business and the pass has become the biggest trade port along Sino-Vietnamese border," said Zhong.

Now it has become a tourist attraction and an important communication link together with highways and railways connecting China and Vietnam.

"Hundreds of trucks run through the pass every day during the busiest season," said an armed policeman on duty.

Sino-Vietnamese trade and exchanges have been on the rise since the pass was re-opened on April 1, 1992, the first to be re-opened between China and Vietnam since the two countries normalized their relations in 1991.

With the development of bilateral relations, more Vietnamese people use the pass to study, do business and to sight-see in China, thus promoting the friendship between the two peoples.

Pingxiang City Mayor Deng Chengren said that the pass will continue to be witness to further development of Sino-Vietnamese relations, adding that the bilateral friendship will stand as firm as the Friendship Pass.

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