Hanoi (TDI): Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his state visit to Vietnam on Tuesday with the two neighbors pledging joint efforts to accelerate the building of a community with a shared future that carries strategic importance.
To that end, the two sides agreed to work together for stronger political mutual trust, more substantive security collaboration, enhanced practical cooperation, more solid popular foundation, closer coordination on multilateral affairs and better management of differences.
Before leaving for Malaysia to continue his three-nation Southeast Asia tour, Xi said he has full confidence in the future of China-Vietnam ties.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of China-Vietnam diplomatic relations, a milestone in the two countries’ profound traditional friendship featuring “camaraderie plus brotherhood.”
During Xi’s state visit to Vietnam in December 2023, the two countries agreed to build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic importance on the basis of strengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
In his meeting with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam on Monday, Xi emphasized more efforts to fulfill the vision.
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The two nations should work to deepen their comprehensive strategic collaboration, ensure steady and continued progress in building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, and contribute even more to the establishing of a community with a common future for mankind, Xi said.
Building the China-Vietnam community with a shared future carries great global importance, Xi said, noting that as the two nations jointly pursue peaceful development, their combined population of over 1.5 billion is advancing toward modernization, which will contribute to regional and world peace and stability while promoting common development.
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To Lam, for his part, said that Xi’s trip would definitely mark a new milestone in the history of friendly exchanges between the two nations, further advancing the building of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic importance.
