Sino-Vietnamese arts show a success

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Dressed in a traditional long robe and wearing a large belt, the muscular man from China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region looks more like a wrestler as he appears on stage, that is until his resounding voice renders the Vietnamese audience packed into the auditorium speechless.

The man with a crew-cut hairstyle was performing traditional Mongolian throat-singing at an arts program performed by Chinese and Vietnamese singers and dancers recently at the Vietnam-China Friendship Palace in Hanoi, which was built with Chinese aid and first opened its doors in 2017.