Discussing the visit of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife to Vietnam this time, Mr. Nguyen Van Tho, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Vietnamese Ambassador to China, Vice President of the Vietnam - China Friendship Association, said: "The two sides also plan to issue a joint statement on the community of shared future between Vietnam and China..."
Discussing the visit of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife to Vietnam this time, Mr. Nguyen Van Tho, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Ambassador of Vietnam to China, Vice President of the Vietnam - China Friendship Association, said that the visit will create a new milestone, a new push to deepen the Vietnam - China Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership in all fields.
Promote mutually beneficial cooperation projects
According to Mr. Tho, it is expected that during this visit of Mr. Xi Jinping, the leaders of the two countries will sign many cooperation documents in many fields. Through that, a new page in the cooperative relationship between Vietnam and China will be opened. Mr. Tho analyzed that the Vietnam - China relationship over the past 70 years has "some ups and downs", but the main flow is still friendship and cooperation. Because the friendship and cooperation are in line with the fundamental interests of the people of the two countries, as well as the general trend of the world and the times is peace, cooperation and development. During this visit of Mr. Xi Jinping, the senior leaders of the two countries will discuss and reach agreements and common understandings, orienting the future of the relationship between Vietnam and China in all aspects. "Political trust will be higher, cooperation will be more effective and substantive, and the social foundation for the Vietnam-China friendship will also be expanded. The two sides also plan to issue a joint statement on the community of shared futures between Vietnam and China. That is a future of peace, cooperation, prosperous development, the basis for the two sides to promote economic, trade, investment, tourism, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges...", Mr. Tho said. Regarding promoting specific cooperation, Mr. Nguyen Van Tho also said that during this visit of Mr. Xi Jinping, the two sides will also promote the connection of the Vietnam-China "Two Corridors, One Belt" Framework with the "Belt and Road" Initiative. According to the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, effective cooperation implementation will best serve the interests of the people of Vietnam and China. The issue is to promote cooperation projects that are beneficial to both sides and mutually beneficial. "That is also the wish of the Party, State and people of Vietnam and China," Mr. Tho added.
"Opportunities are greater than challenges"
Speaking to the press, Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hung Ba said that during the visit to Vietnam of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping, the two sides' senior leaders will discuss in depth a series of important issues, such as further deepening cooperation in the fields of politics, security, economy, trade, and people-to-people exchange; as well as enhancing coordination and cooperation at multilateral forums. The two sides will sign dozens of important cooperation documents in various fields, from Party channel cooperation, national defense and security, cooperation between agencies and localities, justice, connecting development strategies, trade and economic development, investment, digital economy, green development, import and export of agricultural products, irrigation, maritime cooperation, etc. Mr. Hung Ba also acknowledged that in the relationship between Vietnam and China, "the opportunities are greater than the challenges". "The opportunity is that the political trust between the two sides is constantly strengthening and deepening, and the need for cooperation in all fields between the two sides is also constantly expanding and upgrading. It can be said that the strengthening of cooperation in areas with advantages of favorable time, favorable location and harmony between people," Mr. Hung Ba emphasized. Ambassador Hung Ba also said that the two sides will promote the connection of development strategies, speed up the connection of the Vietnam - China "Two Corridors, One Belt" Framework with the "Belt and Road" Initiative. At the same time, the two countries also need to strengthen connectivity and communication on roads, sea routes, in the air as well as on the internet. "I think the most important and priority is that the two sides need to expand and strengthen connectivity and cooperation in the fields of transport infrastructure , especially hard infrastructure, such as railways and highways...", Mr. Hung Ba said.
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