Exchanges and cooperation between the youth are foundation for China-Vietnam relations, said Vice President of China Li Yuanchao to delegates of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee who are on a visit to China on May 22.

Receiving the Vietnamese delegation in Beijing, Vice President Li welcomed their participation in the 17th China-Vietnam youth friendship meeting.

He applauded the cooperation between the HCYU and the Communist Youth League (CYL) of China, asking them to continue exchange and experience sharing, thereby fostering bilateral cooperation.

Le Quoc Phong, First Secretary of the HCYU Central Committee and President of the Vietnam Students’ Association, on behalf of the delegation, voiced his hope that leaders of the two Parties and countries will continue creating favourable conditions for exchange and cooperation activities between the HCYU and CYL Central Committees.

Vice President of China Li Yuanchao (L) and First Secretary of the HCYU Central Committee Le Quoc Phong. (Credit: VOV)

He also expected that those activities will become more practical, thus greatly contributing to the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Earlier on the same day, the Vietnamese delegation joined a meeting with Zheng Xiaosong, deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

Zheng affirmed that as the China attaches importance to enhancing relations between the two Parties and States, it will keep promoting exchanges and experience sharing so as to assist Vietnam in personnel training and learn from the country’s experience in youth-related works.

Phong, for his part, informed the hosts about remarkable activities of the HCYU and thanked China’s International Liaison Department for supporting bilateral ties, as well as youth exchanges.

Both sides also pleasantly highlighted mutual visits by the countries’ senior leaders since the beginning of 2017, adding that regular trips will help intensify bilateral ties, including youth exchanges.

They shared a view that the common perceptions and attention of Vietnamese and Chinese leaders have facilitated exchange activities between the two countries’ youths./.

( VNF/VNA )