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Profile: Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc

Xinhua, September 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

At the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, will pay an official visit to China on Sept. 10-15 and attend the 13th China-ASEAN Expo.

Born in July 1954 in Vietnam's central Quang Nam province, Phuc was a member of the Political Bureau of the 11th and 12th Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee.

Phuc served as chairman of Quang Nam People's Committee and Vietnam's government deputy inspector general.

Phuc had worked as deputy prime minister since August 2011.

In April 2016, Phuc was elected prime minister of Vietnam and re-elected in July.

Phuc attended the closing ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo in October 2010, and the China-ASEAN Expos in October 2011 and September 2015, respectively. Endi