CPN-UML Vice Chairman Bishnu Paudel along with three other leaders have left for China on Monday.

Paudel was accompanied by UML Standing Committee member Kashi Nath Adhikari, Central Accounting Commission Chairman Pushpa Kandel, central committee member and Karnali Province Assembly member Mina Singh Rakhal.

UML Deputy General Secretary Bishnu Rimal said that the team led by Paudel had left for the northern neighbor to take part in the Economic Cooperation and Cultural Exchange program to be held in Kunming, China.

Rimal said that the Poudel-led delegation will also meet Song Tao, head of the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

China has been urging the communist forces to be united. China has once again tried to unite the splintered forces at a time when the local level elections are just round the corner.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will arrive in Nepal on Friday.