(WNAM Monitoring):Over the years, China and Vietnam have witnessed frequent high-level exchanges and breakthroughs in practical cooperation, which have benefited the two peoples and facilitated regional as well as global peace and development.
The comradely and brotherly bonds between the two countries are in the spotlight again as Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, is due to pay a state visit to the country from December 12 to 13 at the invitation of the Vietnamese side.
Six years after his last Vietnam trip, experts say Xi’s upcoming visit is bound to consolidate mutual political trust and promote mutually beneficial cooperation.
In October, President Xi met with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong in Beijing at the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Exactly a year before that, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong became the first foreign leader to visit China after the 20th CPC National Congress and was awarded the Friendship Medal of the People’s Republic of China by Xi. Reciprocal visits of both leaders took place in 2017, with Xi’s state visit to Vietnam being his first overseas trip after the 19th CPC National Congress.
It was during Xi’s 2017 state visit to Vietnam when a memorandum of understanding was signed on the joint implementation of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Vietnam’s Two Corridors and One Economic Circle plan, resulting in major projects that substantially improved the people’s well-being.
China and Vietnam should maintain high-level strategic communication, strengthen cooperation mechanisms in national defense and public security, jointly build a mutually beneficial, stable and unimpeded production and supply chain system, and strengthen personnel exchanges, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi while co-chairing the 15th meeting of the Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi earlier this month.
While meeting with Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Nguyen Phu Trong said that the further development of Vietnam-China relations accords with the aspiration of the Vietnamese people, and the “comradely and brotherly” friendship between the two countries will be cemented through joint efforts.
