State President Luong Cuong visited former State Presidents Nguyen Minh Triet and Truong Tan Sang and paid respects to the families of several former Party and State leaders in Ho Chi Minh City on January 28 ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 16 visited and presented gifts to local armed forces, policy beneficiary families, revolutionary beneficiaries and the needy in the northern province of Cao Bang on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet), the most important and longest festival of Vietnamese people in a year.