Hanoi, 16 August 2024 (TDI): Vietnam’s top leader To Lam will make a 3-day state visit to China starting Sunday, his first overseas tour since becoming the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee.
Analysts said the visit shows a continuation of the close relationship between the two nations as developing long-term, sound and stable Vietnam-China ties has always been the strategic choice and top priority of the CPV and the Vietnamese government.
At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vietnamese President To Lam will pay a state trip to China from August 18 to 20, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a satement Thursday.
Lam was appointed as General Secretary of the CPV Central Committee on August 3, following the passing of former General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on July 19. Analysts said that Lam’s trip to China highlighted the unique and strategic importance of China-Vietnam relations, underlining that cooperation with Beijing is a top priority of Hanoi’s foreign policy in the post-Trong era.
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President Xi will meet Lam during his trip to China. Premier Li Qiang, Chairman Zhao Leji of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, and Chairman Wang Huning of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, will also meet him respectively, the statement said.
China and Vietnam are working intensively to implement the outcomes achieved during President Xi’s historic trip to Vietnam at the end of 2023, the spokesperson said, adding that efforts to build the China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic importance have had a good start.
Noting that China is the first country that Lam will visit after becoming the the CPV central committee’s general secretary, the spokesperson said this fully demonstrates the great significance that he attaches to the relations between the two parties and nations.
