Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the Guangxi Party Secretary's visits for three consecutive years demonstrated Guangxi's importance to the friendly cooperative relationship with Vietnamese localities.
On the afternoon of February 18, at the Government Headquarters, receiving comrade Tran Cuong, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, who is visiting and attending the Spring Meeting 2025 program in Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hopes that the two sides will speed up the connection of railway infrastructure, border gate cooperation, and create conditions for Vietnamese goods to enter China and go to third countries.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh warmly welcomed Comrade Tran Cuong to visit Vietnam; he said that the Guangxi Party Secretary's visits for three consecutive years demonstrated Guangxi's importance to the friendly and cooperative relations with Vietnamese localities.
Secretary Tran Cuong expressed his joy at his first visit to Vietnam, his impression of Vietnam's development, the prosperous and happy lives of its people; his belief that Vietnam will develop strongly in the future; affirmed that Guangxi attaches special importance to friendly cooperation with Vietnamese localities, especially the four border provinces adjacent to Guangxi; and is determined to effectively implement the high-level common perception, making practical contributions to the relationship between the two Parties and the two countries.
In a friendly and cordial atmosphere, the two sides agreed that, along with the positive development of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future has strategic significance, the relationship between Vietnamese and Guangxi localities has achieved very encouraging results, friendly exchanges have been strengthened, economic and trade cooperation has grown positively with trade turnover reaching 42 billion USD, border management has been implemented smoothly, traffic connections have been promoted, people-to-people exchanges and cultural, educational and tourism cooperation have taken place vigorously.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his appreciation for the fact that Guangxi is the place that preserves many imprints of President Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary activities and is the leading locality in China in exchanges and cooperation with Vietnam, and is also China's gateway to ASEAN.
The Prime Minister hopes that Guangxi and Vietnamese localities will continue to strongly innovate methods and improve the quality of cooperation, bringing practical benefits to the people of both sides.
Regarding cooperation in the coming time, the Prime Minister hopes that the two sides will accelerate the connection of transport infrastructure, focusing on the two standard gauge railways Lang Son-Hanoi and Mong Cai-Ha Long-Hai Phong; accelerate the construction of smart border gates at the Huu Nghi-Huu Nghi Quan international border gate pair; continue to facilitate the import of Vietnamese goods into China and to third countries; strengthen cooperation in science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, and cooperation in building large, symbolic projects; cooperate in managing land borders well and actively implementing people-to-people exchange activities.
Agreeing with the directions of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Secretary of Guangxi Tran Cuong affirmed that the potential for cooperation between Guangxi and Vietnamese localities is still very large; he hopes that the two sides will promote traffic connections, especially railway connections; accelerate the construction of "smart border gates" to improve the efficiency of customs clearance of goods; promote cross-border economic cooperation, first of all, piloting the construction of a cross-border industrial cooperation zone between Guangxi and Quang Ninh; strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence, saying that Guangxi will soon establish a China-ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Center in Nanning, to strengthen cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence with Vietnam and ASEAN countries.
Guangxi Party Secretary Tran Cuong invited Vietnamese leaders to attend and hoped that the Vietnamese Government would support Guangxi in organizing the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO), scheduled to be held in Nanning from September 17-21, 2025./.
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