BEIJING -- As General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping's Special Representative, China's top political advisor Wang Huning will go to Vietnam to mourn the passing of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, a spokesman for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee announced on Wednesday.

Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will lead a CPC delegation to participate in the mourning activities from July 25 to 26 in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, said spokesman Hu Zhaoming.