President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visit to Vietnam on Thursday and Friday will be his first to the neighboring country since assuming office. It will also be the first visit by a Chinese president to Vietnam in a decade.

Indeed, Sino-Vietnamese relations have been facing some challenges over the past 10 years, and that's why Xi's visit to Vietnam has acquired greater significance. Thus many expect the visit to better promote Sino-Vietnamese relations and find solutions to the existing bilateral problems.

To begin with, Xi's visit is expected to deepen the relationship between the communist parties of the two countries. Since Xi is China's head of state as well as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, his visit will promote exchanges between the two ruling parties. In fact, an inter-Party cadre training cooperation has already taken shape, which, given the challenges of regional and international affairs, is a welcome move.