At noon on December 12 local time, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President Xi Jinping arrived in Hanoi on the special plane and began his state visit to Viet Nam at the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong and President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Vo Van Thuong.