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	General Secretary, President To Lam and his Wife Pay State Visit to China

Ahead of the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son shared with the press his expectations for the visit.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

According to Minister Bui Thanh Son, the State visit to China is the first foreign trip of General Secretary and President To Lam in his new position. This is a particularly important foreign activity between Vietnam and China this year, which will have a great impact on the development of the relationship between the two Parties and the two countries in the long term.

The fact that General Secretary and President To Lam made his first State visit to China after assuming his new position demonstrates the importance and top priority of both sides in consolidating and developing the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, building a Community of Shared Future. Both sides are looking forward to the visit and hope to achieve the following results.

Firstly, the two countries maintain high-level strategic exchanges, consolidate the foundation of political trust, and enhance orientation for the development of bilateral relations in the new period.

Secondly, the two sides reach a consensus on major orientations and measures to effectively build a strategic community of a shared future between Vietnam and China. The focus is on continuing to implement and concretize the high-level consensus and signed agreements, bringing practical cooperation to new progress, especially in areas of mutual interest such as railway connectivity, agricultural trade, high-quality investment, finance and monetary, culture-tourism, and people-to-people exchanges

Thirdly, through sincere, and substantive exchanges on the issue of land and maritime borders, the two sides will jointly handle existing issues properly, better control and resolve maritime disputes, and prevent maritime issues from affecting the healthy development of the relations between the two Parties and two countries, contributing to maintaining peace, stability, cooperation, development in the region and the world.

I believe that with the special attention and close coordination of both sides, the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam, and his wife will be a great success. It will become a new milestone, opening a new development stage for the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future of strategic significance.

Assessing the achievements of cooperation between Vietnam and China over the past time, Minister Bui Thanh Son said that the Vietnam-China relationship, after more than 30 years of normalization, especially after more than 15 years since the establishment of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in 2008, has made rapid, and comprehensive progress in all fields.

In particular, after the historic official visit to China by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in October 2022 and the third state visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping in December 2023, the two sides have agreed to continue deepening and elevating the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, building a Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future with strategic significance, opening a new chapter for bilateral relations.

Since the beginning of 2024, the relationship between the two countries has maintained a positive momentum, with strong cooperation spreading to all levels, sectors, and people. Both sides have assessed that the bilateral relationship is at its deepest, most comprehensive, and most substantive level ever.

General Secretary and President To Lam. Photo: VGP

High-level and grassroots exchanges have been maintained regularly through various flexible forms, contributing to enhancing political trust and creating new impetus for all levels and sectors of both sides. Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has had two delegations of key leaders, including the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the National Assembly, visit and work in China. Additionally, several Politburo members, Central Committee members, and leaders of various ministries, sectors, and localities of Vietnam have visited China.

The two sides have also opened up new areas of cooperation and established additional high-level exchange mechanisms between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the National People's Congress of China.

Economic, trade, and investment cooperation continues to grow. The import-export turnover in the first six months alone increased by 24.1% compared to the same period in 2023, reaching US$94.5 billion. The number of FDI projects in the first half of this year continued to top the list with 447 newly granted projects with a total registered capital of nearly US$1.3 billion.

Tourism has recovered positively (in the first seven months, 2.1 million Chinese tourists visited Vietnam, higher than the entire year of 2023). Agricultural cooperation between the two countries has made new progress with both sides basically completing the procedures for the official export of some Vietnamese agricultural products to China such as frozen durian, fresh coconuts, fresh chili, and passion fruit. People-to-people exchanges have been strengthened, with the number of Vietnamese students studying in China reaching over 23,000, double that of the period before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Moreover, the overall situation on the land border remains stable, the situation in the South China Sea is well controlled. The mechanisms for exchanges and negotiations between the two sides on maritime issues are maintained regularly. Both sides are working towards organizing activities to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Land Border Treaty and the 15th anniversary of the signing of three legal documents on the Vietnam-China land border.

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