Memorial hall a testament to relationship

Guilin school helped educate many, including some of Vietnam's leaders

Even after half a century, Lu Meinian, 80, vividly remembers the time she worked as an interpreter at Guilin Yucai School, where many Vietnamese students received their education in China from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Lu began working at the school in Guilin, a city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in 1971. During her three years there, she was mainly responsible for interpreting for senior officials from Vietnam.

More than 10,000 Vietnamese students received their education at the Yucai school in Guangxi, which borders Vietnam, during Vietnam's war against French occupation, from 1945 to 1954, and during its war against United States aggression, from 1955 to 1975.