Senior CPC official meets Lao delegation

BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Wang Qishan on Tuesday met with a Lao delegation at the Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing.

The delegation was headed by Bounthong Chitmany, president of the Central Control Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP), to attend a seminar on improving party conduct and building a clean government.

Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, recalled Lao President Choummaly Saygnasone's visit to China in September.

During Choummaly's Beijing visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and the Lao leader set the direction for the development of the relationship between the two parties as well as the two countries, Wang said. Choummaly is also general secretary of the LPRP Central Committee.

Wang, also secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said the two ruling parties are faced with the same mission of self-discipline, and the two discipline bodies must fulfill their due responsibilities.

Wang said he looks forward to more effective exchanges between the two parties on party discipline.

Echoing Wang, Bounthong said the Lao side is willing to increase exchanges and boost cooperation with the Chinese side on improving party conduct.