General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife, along with a large high-ranking delegation, arrived in Vietnam today, December 12, at the invitation of the head of the Vietnamese Party and State.
General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan - Photo: THX
This is the third visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping as head of the Chinese Party and State.
All three times Mr. Xi Jinping came were on state visits, demonstrating Vietnam's respect for Mr. Xi Jinping personally and the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
A series of high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials accompanied
This third visit took place at the invitation of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his wife, and President Vo Van Thuong and his wife.
In addition to Professor Peng Liyuan, wife of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping, the delegation included many high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of China.
Among them are Politburo Standing Committee member, Secretary of the Secretariat Cai Qi, concurrently Chief of the Central Office, and Politburo member, Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi.
The delegation also included Party Central Committee member and head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Liu Jianchao, Director of the Central Policy Research Office Jiang Jinquan, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Cheng Sanjie, and Party Central Committee member and Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao.
Party Central Committee member, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Liu Ning, Party Central Committee member, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yunnan Province Wang Ning, Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo and his wife were also in the delegation.
Also present were Director of the International Development Cooperation Department La Chieu Huy, Major General Li Bin, Director of the Central Office for International Military Cooperation, and Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Nong Dung.
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will preside over the welcoming ceremony for Mr. Xi Jinping.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on December 12, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will preside over a state-level welcoming ceremony for General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping at the Presidential Palace.
The two leaders will then hold talks at the Party Central Committee headquarters, review and listen to the introduction of signed documents, and then attend a tea party. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will host a state banquet for General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping that evening.
The Chinese leader will begin his second day in Vietnam by laying a wreath and visiting the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.
Chinese General Secretary and President Xi Jinping will then meet with President Vo Van Thuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on December 13.
President Vo Van Thuong and his wife will host a banquet for General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife on the same day.
Before leaving Vietnam, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his wife will reunite with General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife in a friendly exchange with Vietnamese and Chinese intellectuals and young generations.
It is expected that the wife of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and the wife of President Vo Van Thuong will also have activities with the wife of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping on December 12 and 13.
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping together released food at Uncle Ho's fish pond during the Chinese leader's visit to Vietnam in November 2017 - Photo: NGUYEN KHANH
Expectations of a "new positioning", "new level"
The visit of Chinese General Secretary and President Xi Jinping takes place at a very meaningful time for the relationship between the two countries. 2023 marks the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership between the two countries.
Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu affirmed that Xi Jinping's state visit will be a new milestone in Vietnam-China relations. Mr. Nguyen Minh Vu said that both Vietnam and China "have high expectations" for this visit, including expectations for a "new position" and "new level".
There is also the expectation of substantive cooperation results in various fields, with "a large number of documents likely to be signed" during the visit and the expectation of the visit's ripple effect to all levels, sectors, and people.
Dr. Nguyen Tang Nghi (Faculty of International Relations, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-HCM) and Professor Trieu Ve Hoa (Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, China) both said that the trip demonstrated the special high level of respect that Chinese leaders have for Vietnam.
In 2023, Xi Jinping made several overseas trips. However, Vietnam was the second country that the Chinese leader made a state visit without any multilateral activities.
"The visit will be an activity to close a year of exciting foreign activities not only of China but also of Vietnam, further consolidating and developing the traditional friendship between China and Vietnam.
At the same time, it also opens a new development stage for the two countries, creates a new space for cooperation between the two countries, enhances mutual political trust and creates a good development environment for the cause of building socialism and developing the two countries," Professor Trieu Ve Hoa told Tuoi Tre Online .
According to experts, Mr. Xi Jinping's visit took place in the context of many unpredictable developments in the world and the region.
However, with the roles, voices and positions of Vietnam and China in the region and the world, the talks and meetings between the leaders of the two countries are expected to contribute to strengthening stability, peace and promoting development not only between the two countries but also in the region and internationally.
Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hung Ba revealed that the two countries are expected to sign dozens of important documents on the Party channel, national security and defense, cooperation between agencies and localities, justice, media, connecting development strategies, trade and economy, investment, digital economy, green development, import and export of agricultural products, irrigation, maritime cooperation...
According to Mr. Hung Ba, the visit of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping this time will be an opportunity for the leaders of the two countries to maintain strategic exchanges and contacts, and determine directions to further strengthen bilateral relations in the spirit of "new situation, new direction, new prospects, new momentum".
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