BEIJING - China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng will visit Vietnam later this month, a spokesman of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said on Friday.

Yu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, will make the official visit at the invitation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and the Fatherland Front of Vietnam, according to Spokesman Zhou Yuyun.