China stands ready to work with Vietnam to strengthen strategic communication, enhance political mutual trust, deepen exchanges and cooperation, and jointly meet challenges, to push China-Vietnam relations to a higher level, Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, said on Tuesday.

Cai made the remarks when meeting via video link with Vo Van Thuong, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and permanent member of the Secretariat of the CPV Central Committee, who is accompanying Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the CPV Central Committee, on his visit to China.

Cai said that successful talks between General Secretary Xi Jinping and General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong have charted the course and provided new impetus for the development of China-Vietnam relations and the socialist cause of the two countries.

China is ready to work with Vietnam to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties, continue to carry forward the fine tradition of friendship and mutual trust, and give full play to the political guiding role of inter-party exchanges, Cai said.

Vo Van Thuong said that the meeting between General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary Xi Jinping was very successful and achieved important results.

Vietnam is willing to make full use of the exchange and cooperation mechanisms between the two parties to promote Vietnam-China friendship and cooperation in various fields to achieve greater results, he said.

(Cover: National flags of Vietnam and China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, October 30, 2022. /CFP)