President vows stronger Hanoi ties
Greater cooperation needed, Xi tells visiting CPV official
President Xi Jinping underscored the need for China and Vietnam to consolidate political mutual trust, bolster solidarity and cooperation, properly manage differences and jointly respond to risks and challenges.
Beijing and Hanoi should work toward the building of a bilateral community with a shared future dedicated to the cause of human peace and progress, Xi told Truong Thi Mai, head of the Organization Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), during a meeting in Beijing on April 26.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, noted that this year marks the 15th anniversary of the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership between Beijing and Hanoi. He expressed his readiness to maintain close exchanges with Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the CPV Central Committee, to enhance political and strategic guidance on bilateral ties.
Xi made an appeal for both sides to stay people-oriented, further align their development strategies and projects, bolster the connectivity in infrastructure and people-to-people exchanges and promote education on their traditional friendship, a key step for the long-term growth of relations.
It is important for both nations to strengthen unity and cooperation over international affairs, resolutely oppose hegemony and bloc confrontation, protect the dividends from regional peace and development, and jointly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, he said.
The visit by Truong Thi Mai, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPV Central Committee and permanent member of the CPV Central Committee Secretariat, came after a trip to China by Nguyen Phu Trong in late October.
Hanoi has always seen friendly cooperation with Beijing as a priority in its foreign policy, and adhered to the one-China policy, she said.
She expressed readiness to conduct closer high-level exchanges between the two parties, enable further alignment between the Belt and Road Initiative and the “Two Corridors, One Economic Belt” initiative and take the ties between the two states, two parties and the socialist cause forward.
Beijing and Hanoi should work toward the building of a bilateral community with a shared future dedicated to the cause of human peace and progress.
XI JINPING
President