Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (CABIS), Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien assessed that this is one of the important and prestigious mechanisms for economic, trade and investment cooperation between ASEAN countries and China.

According to Minister Nguyen Hong Dien, this fair directly and substantially contributes to making ASEAN China's largest trade partner and China the leading trade partner of ASEAN countries, including Vietnam.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien

Over the past 20 years, Vietnam has been one of the most active members contributing to the success of CAEXPO and CABIS. Among ASEAN countries, Vietnam has always been the country participating in CAEXPO with the largest scale of enterprises, the largest area and number of booths displaying goods at all direct fairs.

The Minister emphasized that Vietnam expects cooperation within the framework of the CAEXPO mechanism to be one of the important driving forces to promote the common development of the entire ASEAN bloc - China and its member countries, countries under the "Belt and Road" initiative, towards the future, becoming one of the most dynamic economic growth centers in the world.

Bringing economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation to new heights

It is expected that in the coming time, CAEXPO, CABIS and related activities will focus on priority contents. The Minister of Industry and Trade hopes to attract more participation and transactions from reputable, large-scale and potential enterprises, exporters and importers from China and the world in areas of strength of ASEAN and China.

The focus is on high technology, innovation, green development, carbon emission reduction technology and environmental treatment, production and processing of raw materials...

In addition, he also looked forward to further innovation, diversification and enrichment of activities, fields and forms of cooperation within the framework of CAEXPO and CABIS to bring economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, including Vietnam, to new heights.

"Vietnam will make the most of opportunities at CAEXPO and sideline forums to promote the image of the country, people, product brands, business brands, and national brands to ASEAN countries and China," the Minister of Industry and Trade emphasized.

According to Minister Nguyen Hong Dien, Vietnam and China are two neighboring countries, mountains connected to mountains, rivers connected to rivers, and the people of the two countries have a long-standing traditional friendship. In the journey of more than 7 decades since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1950, cooperation has always been the main stream in Vietnam - China relations.

In 2008, China was the first country to establish a "Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership" framework with Vietnam, the most extensive cooperation framework within Vietnam's partnership with countries around the world to date.

The Party, State and people of Vietnam attach importance to and determine that developing friendly neighborly relations and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with the Party, State and people of China is a consistent and long-term policy, a strategic choice and a top priority in Vietnam's foreign policy.

In recent years, under the direct leadership and guidance of the two General Secretaries, especially after the historic official visit to China by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (October 30 - November 1, 2022), the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China has been continuously consolidated and enhanced. High-level and all-level exchanges and contacts have taken place regularly in flexible forms.

Economic, trade and investment cooperation has grown positively and continuously reached new records. China has been Vietnam's largest trade partner for many consecutive years, Vietnam is China's largest trade partner in ASEAN and the 6th largest in the world.

Other areas of mutually beneficial cooperation are constantly expanded and deepened, bringing practical benefits to the people of the two countries.

In the context of the current rapid, complex and unpredictable developments in the world and the region, maintaining a stable, healthy and increasingly in-depth Vietnam-China relationship is an objective requirement, of great significance to the long-term development of each country as well as to peace, stability and development of the region.

With that spirit, the Minister of Industry and Trade hopes that all levels and sectors of both sides will strengthen the understanding and actively implement the high-level common perceptions of the two Parties and two countries, and continue to promote and deepen cooperation in all fields.

It is necessary to actively research and implement cooperation projects to connect road and railway infrastructure between the two countries.

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