Xi pays tribute to late leader Ho Chi Minh

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, on Wednesday to lay a wreath and pay his respects.

This was the fourth time Xi paid tribute to the late Vietnamese leader.

The first events on Xi's itinerary when he visited Vietnam in 2011 as Chinese vice-president were laying a wreath at the mausoleum and visiting Ho Chi Minh's stilt house, where the leader spent the final years of his life. During his state visits to Vietnam in 2015 and 2017, Xi again visited the mausoleum and the stilt house.