General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay official good-will visits to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Vietnam between October 28 and November 2.
   
Guo Yezhou, spokesman for the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, announced here Thursday that at the invitation of Kim Jong-il, General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and Chairman of the National Defence Commission, Hu will visit DPRK between October 28 and 30.
   
At the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong, Hu will visit the Socialist Republic of Vietnam between October 31 and November 2.

(Xinhua News Agency October 21, 2005)