Yunnan section of Sino-Vietnam border project completes

　KUNMING, Jan. 3 (Chinese media) -- The Yunnan section of the

Sino-Vietnam land boundary demarcation project has ended with 665 boundary

tablets erected, an official with the foreign affairs office of southwest

China's Yunnan Province said here on Saturday.

During the past eight years, six Chinese teams

cooperated with their Vietnamese counterparts and demarcated the borders of

Jiangcheng, Jinping, Hekou, Maguan, Malipo and Funing.

All the land border demarcation work in the Yunnan

area was completed on Dec. 20, in accordance with the "Vietnam-China Land Border

Treaty."

Large boundary tablets were established on Hekou's

roads, rail terminal and harbor along the Yunnan section of the border.

The completion of the task represents a major step in

Sino-Vietnamese relations.

China and Vietnam exchanged views on Wednesday on

solving the remaining issues connected to border demarcation and erecting border

markers, reached an agreement and issued a joint statement.