The new routes are expected to facilitate tourism and trade development, improve customs clearance capacity at the Huu Nghi – Youyi Guan border gate pair. They also aim to meet the growing trade needs between the two countries.

A representative of the Lang Son Provincial People’s Committee proposed, the two sides continue intensifying coordination, so that transport routes at the border gate pair, can be given full properties and functions of an international border gate.

Meanwhile, a representative of the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China affirmed that, over the past time, friendship and cooperation between the region and Lang Son have been consolidated, and developed comprehensively, with the launch of the new routes a typical example.

At the event, both sides’ competent forces carried out immigration procedures, for citizens of the two countries, at the Tan Thanh - Puzhai entrance./.