Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Hanoi this afternoon

(Dan Tri) - Two Hong Ky cars are present at Vip A terminal of Noi Bai airport (Hanoi), ready to welcome General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife for an official visit to Vietnam.

At noon on December 12, the plane carrying General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife and the high-ranking delegation will land at Noi Bai Airport (Hanoi). General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and his wife will pay an official visit to Vietnam for two days on December 12-13. According to the schedule, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and his wife and the high-ranking delegation will attend a state-level welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in the afternoon of the same day. Afterwards, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping will hold talks at the Party Central Committee headquarters. This is the third time Xi Jinping has officially visited Vietnam as General Secretary and President of China. The previous two visits were in 2015 and 2017.

Hong Ky car arrived at Vip A terminal of Noi Bai airport on the morning of December 12 (Photo: Thanh Dong).

Since Vietnam and China established the framework of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership (2008), the relationship between the two Parties and countries has developed increasingly substantive, solid and comprehensive in all areas. There have been many high-level visits marking important milestones in the relationship between the two countries, the most recent being the historic visit to China by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in October 2022. Economic, trade and investment cooperation has become increasingly in-depth. China has been Vietnam's largest trading partner for 20 consecutive years and Vietnam is currently China's largest trading partner in ASEAN, China's 4th largest trading partner in the world (after the US, Japan, and South Korea). Bilateral trade turnover increased ninefold from 20 billion USD in 2008 to nearly 180 billion USD in 2022. Over the past 15 years, China's investment in Vietnam has increased more than 10 times from a cumulative 2 billion USD in 2008 to 25 billion USD today. In 2023 alone, China rose to fourth place among countries and territories investing in Vietnam. People-to-people exchanges and cooperation between localities have been vibrant, achieving many practical results. To date, nearly 60 provinces and cities of Vietnam have established friendly cooperative relations with Chinese localities.

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