BEIJING: After six years, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, will again pay a state visit to Vietnam at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong.
The visit will not only consolidate and deepen the traditional friendship between China and Vietnam as friendly socialist neighbors, but also send a clear signal to the world to promote building a community with a shared future in the neighborhood.
Xi’s visit will add new impetus to the Asia-Pacific region’s stability, development and prosperity and inject more certainty and stability into a turbulent and intertwined world. It is indeed a journey to the past and the future.