VOV.VN - Looking forward to the important milestone of 2025, the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-China diplomatic relations, the two sides affirmed their efforts to promote and bring bilateral relations to new heights, making them increasingly more substantive and effective.
Foreign affairs are especially important.
The State visit to China is the first foreign trip of General Secretary and President To Lam in his new position. The visit, which takes place from August 18-20, 2024, is a particularly important foreign activity between the two countries this year, having a great impact on the development trend of the relationship between the two Parties and the two countries in the long term. 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 the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future, which is of strategic significance.
General Secretary and President To Lam pays a State visit to China from August 18-20, 2024
After more than 30 years of normalization, especially more than 15 years since the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership framework in 2008, Vietnam-China relations have made rapid and increasingly profound and comprehensive progress in all fields.
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 substantive level ever. In particular, high-level contacts and contacts from the central to local levels are maintained regularly in many flexible forms, thereby contributing to enhancing political trust and creating new impetus for levels and sectors of the two sides. Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has had two key delegations of leaders, 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, sectors and localities have visited China. The two sides have also opened up new areas of cooperation, establishing additional mechanisms for annual high-level exchanges between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the National People's Congress of China.
On July 20, 2024, General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping visited General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing.
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 condolence message; 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 in Hanoi.Bright colors in the Vietnam - China trade picture
In the first half of 2024, the Vietnam - China trade picture witnessed many bright colors, with impressive figures such as import-export turnover in the first 6 months alone increasing by 24.1% over the same period in 2023, reaching 94.5 billion USD; the number of FDI projects in the first half of this year continued to rank first with 447 newly licensed projects with a total registered capital of nearly 1.3 billion USD; tourism recovered positively (in the first 7 months of the year, there were 2.1 million Chinese visitors to Vietnam, higher than the whole year of 2023). Agricultural cooperation between the two countries has made new progress with the two sides basically completing the procedures for official export of some Vietnamese agricultural products to China such as frozen durian, fresh coconut, fresh chili, passion fruit, etc.; people-to-people exchanges have been enhanced, the number of Vietnamese students studying in China has reached more than 23,000 people, double that of the period before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnamese students in China
Economic experts say that bilateral trade between Vietnam and China still has a lot of room for growth, based on many bilateral cooperation agreements and multilateral trade agreements such as the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Currently, China is promoting its accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)... The two sides are also promoting many new cooperation contents on infrastructure and trade facilitation. The overall land border situation remains stable; the situation in the East Sea is basically under good control; the mechanisms for exchange and negotiation between the two sides on maritime issues are maintained regularly. The two sides are organizing 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.
General Secretary and President To Lam received Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning on July 25, 2024. Photo: VNA
At the reception for Politburo Standing Committee member and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning on July 25, 2024 in Hanoi, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized: Vietnam attaches great importance to and gives top priority to relations with China in its overall foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization and diversification. The two sides agreed to continue to closely follow, thoroughly grasp and effectively implement the important common perception between General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary and President Xi Jinping, continuously deepen and elevate the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, and build a Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future with truly good strategic significance, stability and long-term sustainability, for the benefit of the people of the two countries, contributing to peace, stability and cooperation in the world and the region. For his part, Mr. Wang Huning affirmed that China considers Vietnam a priority and strategic choice in its neighborly diplomacy. On the afternoon of August 15, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the state visit of General Secretary and President To Lam, affirming that China expects the visit to deepen the building of a Community of Shared Future between the two countries. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying emphasized that General Secretary To Lam's choice of China as the first country to visit after taking office fully reflects the high importance attached to the development of relations between the two Parties and the two countries of China and Vietnam. "China hopes that through this visit, the two countries will continue to promote their traditional friendship, deepen the building of the China-Vietnam Community of Shared Future, jointly walk the path of socialist modernization with their own characteristics, jointly promote the development of the world socialist cause, and make positive contributions to peace, stability and development of the region and the world," the Chinese Foreign Ministry's statement stated. Looking forward to the important milestone of 2025, the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-China diplomatic relations, the two sides also affirmed their efforts to promote and bring bilateral relations to new heights, making them increasingly more substantive and effective. Source: https://vov.vn/chinh-tri/dua-quan-he-viet-nam-trung-quoc-ngay-cang-thuc-chat-hieu-qua-hon-post1114659.vov
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