Vietnam will give Xi Jinping a special welcome

Vietnam attaches great importance to the visit of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping

Before the visit to Vietnam of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping from December 12-13, in response to the press, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai said that this is Mr. Xi Jinping's third visit to Vietnam as the head of the Party and State of China, taking place at the right time when the two countries celebrate the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, continuing high-level exchange activities between the two Parties and the two countries since the historic visit to China by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in October 2022.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing in October 2022

"This demonstrates the importance of the Chinese Party and State and personally General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping to the Vietnam-China relationship," Mr. Mai affirmed.

Inheriting the tradition of friendship and practices between the two sides, Ambassador Pham Sao Mai said that the Party, State and people of Vietnam attach great importance to the visit and will give General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping a special, friendly, comradely welcome.

Many high-level exchanges and contacts have taken place recently. President Vo Van Thuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Permanent Secretary of the Secretariat Truong Thi Mai have made several visits and work trips to China this year.

Ambassador Pham Sao Mai affirmed that over the past time, with the joint efforts of both sides, the Vietnam-China Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership has continued to maintain a stable development momentum overall, achieving many important results. In particular, since the beginning of this year, after China optimized its Covid-19 prevention policy, direct cooperation and exchanges between the two countries have been officially restored and achieved many positive developments.

The Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership will develop strongly in the coming time.

Economic and trade cooperation continues to be a bright spot in bilateral relations. In the context of declining trade between China and its partners, Vietnam is one of the few partners that has maintained stable trade with China. Two-way trade turnover between Vietnam and China in the first 10 months of the year reached 139.2 billion USD (according to Chinese customs data, it reached 185 billion USD).

Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai

China remains Vietnam's largest trading partner and second largest export market; while Vietnam is China's largest trading partner in ASEAN and China's eighth largest partner in the world. In terms of investment, in the first 11 months of 2023, China invested 3.06 billion USD in Vietnam, accounting for 18.7% of the total newly licensed foreign investment capital, ranking 4th, but leading in the number of new investment projects in Vietnam (accounting for 22.1%). The two sides also actively coordinated to gradually remove and resolve outstanding problems in a number of previous economic cooperation projects.

Cooperation in other areas such as tourism, culture, and education continues to make progress. China has basically restored commercial flights to Vietnam; there are currently more than 200 flights between the two countries every week; in the first 11 months of 2023, 1.5 million Chinese visitors visited Vietnam; China has resumed issuing visas for Vietnamese students and workers returning to China.

The Vietnam-China land border remains peaceful and stable. The two sides have closely coordinated in implementing legal documents on the Vietnam-China land border, strengthening security and safety management in border areas; closely coordinated and satisfactorily handled issues arising on the basis of three legal documents on the land border.

Regarding maritime issues, the two sides reached a common understanding on properly controlling disagreements, maintaining peace and stability at sea in accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), while actively promoting negotiation mechanisms on maritime issues, fully and effectively implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), and striving to build a substantive, effective and efficient Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

In addition, the two sides also actively coordinate at multilateral forums to promote peace, stability and cooperation in the region and the world, promote the central role of ASEAN, comply with the United Nations Charter and international law.

Ambassador Pham Sao Mai affirmed that in the context of the current good development of the two countries' relationship, the state visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping will certainly create more momentum to deepen and elevate the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, creating a foundation for all levels and sectors of both sides to actively deepen and expand cooperation, bringing practical benefits to the two Parties, two countries and two peoples.

"On the basis of advantages, potentials, needs and existing bilateral relations, with the determination and joint efforts of the two Parties, two countries and two peoples, the Vietnam - China Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership will develop strongly in the coming time, for the benefit of the two peoples, for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world," Ambassador Pham Sao Mai commented.

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