BEIJING: President Xi Jinping called on Monday for joint efforts by China and Vietnam to achieve more pragmatic outcomes in building a bilateral community with a shared future, as Beijing and Hanoi have ramped up high-level engagements in recent weeks for even closer partnerships.
Speaking during a meeting in Beijing with Vuong Dinh Hue, chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, Xi urged both nations to fortify the bilateral community with a shared future by adopting high-level mutual trust, high-quality cooperation and high political wisdom.
He underlined that a shared path and a shared future are the hallmarks of China-Vietnam relations, and said that “comrades plus brothers” is the most vivid portrayal of the traditional friendship between the Chinese and Vietnamese ruling parties and the two countries.
The meeting between Xi and Hue came amid a series of high-level interactions between the two neighboring countries over the past month. A Vietnamese delegation led by Le Hoai Trung, head of the Commission for External Relations of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, visited Beijing last month and met with senior Chinese officials.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Vietnamese counterpart, Bui Thanh Son, on Thursday in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Wang also met with Tran Luu Quang, deputy prime minister of Vietnam, in Beijing on Monday.
Xi, who made a two-day state visit to Hanoi in December, told Hue that upholding the socialist system and maintaining national stability and development are in the common interest of China and Vietnam, as global and regional landscapes are undergoing profound and complex changes. He highlighted Beijing’s readiness to bolster the exchange of party and national governance experiences with Hanoi, saying that the coordinating role of the China-Vietnam Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation should be amplified.
Xi urged quicker alignment between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Two Corridors and One Economic Circle strategy, adding that youth exchanges and exchanges between sister cities should be enriched. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
