BEIJING: To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Vietnamese president, arrived in south China’s Guangzhou City on Sunday morning for a three-day state visit to China.
China is the first country Lam visited after being elected as general secretary of the CPV Central Committee on August 3. He has been serving as the president of Vietnam since May 2024. During the visit, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, will hold talks with Lam. Chinese Premier Li Qiang, top legislator Zhao Leji, and top political advisor Wang Huning will also have separate meetings with him. That China is the first country Lam visited after taking his new role fully demonstrates the great importance Vietnam’s top leader attaches to the relations between the two parties and the two countries, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
China looks forward to carrying forward traditional friendship, deepening the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future and working with Vietnam to achieve success on the two sides’ respective socialist paths toward modernization with distinctive characteristics, jointly advance the global socialist cause, and contribute to regional and global peace, stability and development, the spokesperson said.
Xi paid a historic state visit to Vietnam in December 2023, when the two sides announced the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance. During a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in June, Xi said the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance is in line with the modernization needs of the two countries and is conducive to maintaining regional peace and stability and promoting the development of the global socialist cause. –The Daily Mail-CGTN news exchange item
