This year, the annual event, which is alternatively organised by Lang Son and China’s Guangxi province, is expect to feature about 300 booths, including 35 Chinese booths.As part of the fair, various trade promotion activities will be held to introduce strong products of different localities, along with art exchanges.Vietnam’s statistics showed that two-way trade reached US$71.9 billion in 2016, a rise of 7.9% over the previous year, while the trade deficit fell 13.67% year on year.By the end of August this year, trade between the two countries hit US$55.2 billion, up 23.59% over the same period last year, with Vietnam running a deficit of US$17.7 billion, down 5.76%.