Talking to VNA reporters in Beijing about the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam, Mr. Vu Huong Dong - Professor, Director of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies, Zhengzhou University (China) - emphasized that the visit shows many meanings.
General Secretary and President To Lam and General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping review the honor guard. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA
In the diplomatic practice of countries, the choice of the first country visited by a leader has symbolic significance. As a long-time scholar of Vietnam and China-Vietnam relations, Professor Vu Huong Dong stated that this visit shows: Firstly, currently, Vietnam's socio-political development maintains a stable trend, Comrade To Lam and the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam continue to adhere to Ho Chi Minh's thought, inherit the political legacy left by the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, lead Vietnam to continue following the path of socialism, deeply promote the cause of innovation and opening up and the process of modernization of Vietnam. Secondly, the friendly neighborly cooperation between the two countries has a long historical origin and deep foundation, the friendship of "both comrades and brothers" built by Chairman Mao Zedong and Chairman Ho Chi Minh has been strongly developed in the new situation. The fact that General Secretary and President To Lam chose Guangzhou, a place of great significance to the early revolutionary causes of China and Vietnam, to visit first shows the high regard he attaches to the precious friendship between the two Parties and peoples of China and Vietnam. Third, direct talks, in-depth exchanges, and joint planning between the leaders of the two Parties and countries of China and Vietnam will further promote the building of a China-Vietnam Community of Shared Future of strategic significance in depth and substance, deepen extensive exchanges and substantive cooperation in all fields and at all levels between the two countries, and lead the two countries to walk together on the path of building modernization and persistently developing socialism.
Professor, Director of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies, Zhengzhou University (China) Vu Huong Dong. Photo: VNA
Expert Vu Huong Dong believes that this visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam is a strategic choice based on the stable development of the relationship between the two countries, one of the very important activities in the second half of the year of Vietnamese diplomacy, demonstrating Vietnam's consistent stance and choice of "bamboo diplomacy" policy, beneficial to the noble cause of modernization that the Communist Party of Vietnam is constantly promoting, in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and peoples, related to the happiness of the people of China and Vietnam, and also beneficial to maintaining and protecting peace, stability, development and prosperity of the region and the world.Baotintuc.vn
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