From December 12th to 13th, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), paid a state visit to Vietnam. 27 Vietnamese major undergraduate students ofGuangxi University(GXU)studying in Vietnam were honored to be there to welcome General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Interviewed by Xinhua News Agency while waitingfor plane,student Huang Zi Yi expressed hersand her classmates' excitement, saying, "It's a lucky thing for us students to meet General Secretary Xi during our study in Vietnam, and we would like to express our welcome to General Secretary Xi Jinping in various ways."

Zhou Xuefangsaid, "It is a great honor to be there to witness the historical moment, I sincerely wish China and Vietnamprosperity, people's happiness, and the friendship between the two countries will last forever. We international students in Vietnam are willing to be a bridge of Sino-Vietnamese friendship and make active efforts and contributions to build a Sino-Vietnamese community with a shared future."

Student He Yifei summed upthefeelings in four words: excited, honoured, proud and proud.

After the event,student Huang Ruiyingsaidexcitedly, "The experience of these few days is worth recalling for the rest of my life, I will continue to work hard to learn Vietnamese and strive to contribute to the friendship between the two countriesin the future."

In recent years,GXUhas carried out in-depth international co-operation with Vietnamese universities, and the Vietnamese major of the School of Foreign Languages has implemented the "3.5+0.5" mode, and signed a co-operation agreement with VietnamNational University(VNU)University of Social Sciences and Humanities, where students go to Vietnam to study in the 5th semester. In September this year, 27 undergraduates majoring in Vietnamese went to study in Vietnam according to the teaching plan. The School of Foreign Languages maintains regular contact and communication with them, and Huang Xiaolong, a doctoral student who used to teach in the School of Foreign Languagesof GXUand is now studying in VNUservesas their external tutor, urging them to study hard during their stay in Vietnam, and to participate in the practice ofpromotingChinese culture and telling the Chinese story with practical actions, so as to contribute to thefriendly exchangesand long lasting friendshipbetween China and Vietnam.