State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan left Beijing Sunday morning for a working visit to Myanmar and Thailand in Southeast Asia.

Tang is visiting Myanmar and Thailand respectively at the invitation of Thein Sein, Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar and the Thai government.

According to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu, Tang will exchange views with leaders of the two countries on strengthening good-neighborly friendly relationship of cooperation, as well as other issues of common concern.

(Xinhua News Agency February 25, 2007)