Xi Jinping calls for more achievements in building China-Vietnam community with shared future

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Vuong Dinh Hue in Beijing, urging joint efforts to promote more achievements in building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future.

While asking Vuong Dinh Hue to convey cordial greetings to Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, Xi said during his visit to Vietnam at the end of last year, he and Nguyen Phu Trong had jointly announced building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, opening a new chapter in bilateral ties. 

Under the joint efforts of the two sides, the consensus reached by him and Nguyen Phu Trong is being implemented, Xi added.

Xi said the most distinctive feature of China-Vietnam relations is that the two sides are a like-minded pair bound by a common destiny, and "comrades-plus-brothers" is the most vivid portrayal of the traditional friendship between the Chinese and Vietnamese parties and countries.

He urged joint efforts by the two sides to better serve their respective modernization, further benefit the two peoples and make greater contributions to the global socialist cause.

China is willing to scale up the exchange of experience gained in governing both the Party and the country, facilitate the synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Two Corridors and One Economic Circle strategy, and increase exchanges between young people and sister cities, among others, Xi said.

For his part, Vuong Dinh Hue said the Vietnamese party and government highly appreciate China's development and progress.

He said China has set goals such as developing new quality productive forces during this year's Two Sessions, which is an innovative move and provides a useful reference for Vietnam.

The Vietnamese side firmly adheres to the one-China policy, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, he said, vowing to resolutely oppose separatist activities aimed at "Taiwan independence" in any form.

Vuong Dinh Hue said Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Xizang affairs are also China's internal affairs, adding that China will maintain long-term stability and prosperity.

Vietnam pursues an independent foreign policy and regards China as the top strategic choice for Vietnam's foreign relations, he said, pledging to maintain close high-level exchanges with China, continue to consolidate high-level political mutual trust, and actively facilitate the synergy between the BRI and the Two Corridors and One Economic Circle strategy.

(With input from Xinhua)