Chinese president meets old friend in Laos

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with the descendants of late Lao leader Quinim Pholsena, in Vientiane, capital of Laos, on November 14, 2017. Present Xi says he hopes the Pholsena family will continue to contribute to the close ties between China and Laos and help hand down the friendship between the two peoples from generation to generation. Several Pholsena family members studied in China in the 1960s, and some of them attended the same school with Xi Jinping at that time. [Photo: Xinhua]