General Secretary To Lam's visit to China is a particularly important foreign policy activity.

Showing the importance and top priority of both Vietnam and China

Commenting on the significance of the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son said that this is the first foreign trip of General Secretary and President To Lam in his new position and is a particularly important foreign activity between Vietnam and China this year.

The event had a huge impact on the development trend of relations between the two Parties and two countries in the long term.

General Secretary, President To Lam.

"The fact that General Secretary and President To Lam accepted the invitation of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping to make his first State visit to China after assuming his new position demonstrates the importance and top priority of both sides in consolidating and developing the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and building a community of shared future between Vietnam and China, which has strategic significance," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Both sides are looking forward to the visit and hope to achieve results in many aspects.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

First of all, the two sides continue to maintain high-level strategic exchanges, consolidate the foundation of political trust, and enhance orientation for the development of bilateral relations in the new period.

In addition, the two sides also agreed on major directions and measures to effectively build the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future with strategic significance according to the "6 more" orientation agreed upon by both sides.

The focus is to continue to implement the high-level common awareness and signed agreements to bring substantive cooperation to new progress, especially in areas of mutual interest such as railway connection, agricultural trade, high-quality investment, finance and currency, culture - tourism, people-to-people exchange, etc.

Through frank, sincere and substantive exchanges on territorial border issues, the two sides will work together to properly handle existing issues, better control and resolve disagreements at sea, not allowing maritime issues to affect the healthy development of relations between the two Parties and two countries, contributing to maintaining peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region as well as in the world.

Mr. Son believes that with the special respect and close coordination of both sides, the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife will become a new milestone, opening a new development stage for the friendly neighborly relationship, the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, and the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future of strategic significance.

Vietnam - China relations are the deepest, most comprehensive and substantive ever

Assessing the achievements of cooperation between Vietnam and China in recent times, Mr. Son said that after more than 30 years of normalization, especially after more than 15 years since the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership framework in 2008, the Vietnam-China relationship has made rapid progress and is increasingly profound and comprehensive in all fields.

In particular, after the historic official visit to China by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in October 2022 and the third State visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping in December 2023, the two sides agreed to continue to deepen and further enhance the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, build a Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future with strategic significance in the direction of "6 more", opening a new chapter for bilateral relations.

Since the beginning of 2024, the relationship between the two countries has maintained a positive development momentum, the atmosphere of cooperation has spread strongly to all levels, sectors and people.

Both sides assessed that the bilateral relationship is at its deepest, most comprehensive, and most substantial level ever.

Minister Bui Thanh Son said the results of cooperation between the two countries are clearly demonstrated in three aspects.

Regarding exchanges and contacts at high levels and at all levels from central to local levels, activities are maintained regularly with many flexible forms, thereby contributing to enhancing political trust and creating new momentum for all levels and sectors of the two sides.

Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has had two key delegations including the Prime Minister and the National Assembly Chairman visit and work in China.

In addition, a number of Politburo members, Central Party Secretaries and leaders of many Vietnamese ministries, branches and localities visited China.

The two sides also opened up new areas of cooperation, establishing additional high-level annual exchange mechanisms between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Chinese National People's Congress.

Recently, the Chinese Party and State expressed their special affection and respect for the passing of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China promptly sent a message of condolence.

General Secretary and President Xi Jinping visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing and sent a special representative, Politburo Standing Committee member and Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning, to attend the funeral.

Impressive import and export turnover

Regarding two-way economic - trade - investment cooperation between the two countries continues to grow, with impressive figures such as import-export turnover. In the first 6 months alone, it increased by 24.1% over the same period in 2023, reaching 94.5 billion USD.

Tourism has recovered positively (in the first 7 months of the year, there were 2.1 million Chinese visitors to Vietnam, higher than the whole of 2023).

Agricultural cooperation between the two countries has made new progress with the two sides basically completing procedures for official export of a number of Vietnamese agricultural products to China such as frozen durian, fresh coconut, fresh chili, passion fruit...

People-to-people exchanges have been strengthened, with the number of Vietnamese students studying in China reaching more than 23,000, double that of the period before the Covid-19 pandemic.

In particular, the overall land border situation remains stable. The situation in the East Sea is basically well controlled.

The mechanisms for exchange and negotiation between the two sides on maritime issues are maintained regularly.

The two sides are aiming to organize activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Land Border Treaty and the 15th anniversary of the signing of three legal documents on the Vietnam-China land border.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/chuyen-tham-trung-quoc-cua-tong-bi-thu-to-lam-la-hoat-dong-doi-ngoai-dac-biet-quan-trong-192240815184849766.htm