Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng (R), also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somdy Duangdy in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 11, 2018. Somdy is here to attend the 15th China-ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, to be held from Sept. 12 to 15 in Nanning. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

During his meeting with Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somdy Duangdy, Han said relations between China and Laos are special and close, and the two sides are experiencing the best bilateral relations ever in history.