General Secretary To Lam meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang

Photo caption — General Secretary To Lam meets Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang. Photo: VNA

In an atmosphere of friendship, sincerity, trust and openness, the two sides expressed their delight at the positive development of the relationship between the two Parties and the two countries in recent times, notably the increasingly consolidated political trust, close high-level contacts; enhanced security and defense cooperation; remarkable growth in economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation; strong implementation of strategic development connections, especially railway connections; vibrant local cooperation and people-to-people exchanges; and closer multilateral coordination.

General Secretary To Lam highly appreciated the significance and results of the State visit of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping to Vietnam last April, hoping that both sides would promote the relationship between the two Parties and the two countries to develop more deeply and substantially. The General Secretary suggested that both sides enhance political trust to spread and comprehensively lead all areas of cooperation, well organize the 17th meeting of the Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation; and promote the pivotal role of key areas of diplomacy , defense, and public security.

Regarding specific cooperation, the General Secretary hopes that both sides will continue to make efforts to create breakthroughs and truly transform cooperation areas, from commitments to results, from potential to reality, especially in expanding the import of Vietnamese goods and agricultural and aquatic products, increasing electricity exports to Vietnam, giving high priority to soon completing three standard gauge railway lines connecting the two countries; enhancing high-quality investment cooperation associated with technology transfer and human resource training; promoting science and technology cooperation to become a new bright spot of cooperation.

With the desire to foster friendship, understanding and mutual trust between the two peoples, General Secretary To Lam suggested that both sides support social organizations and mass organizations to increase exchanges; actively promote the Vietnam-China friendship and the development achievements of each country; and request China to strongly support in the field of education, especially training high-quality human resources, and promote tourism cooperation. The General Secretary also suggested that both sides properly handle maritime issues, in accordance with the common perception of the two countries' top leaders and international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Chinese Premier Li Qiang sincerely thanked the warm, thoughtful and "brotherly" reception that the Party, State and People gave to General Secretary and President Xi Jinping of China during his visit to Vietnam in April this year; highly appreciated General Secretary To Lam's proposals on directions and measures to promote relations in the coming time; affirmed that the leaders of the Chinese Party and State attach great importance to the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and the Community of Shared Future, which has strategic significance with Vietnam, always considering this a priority direction in China's neighborly foreign policy; emphasized that in the coming time, the two sides need to accelerate the concretization and effective implementation of high-level agreements and common perceptions, enhance political trust, improve the quality and effectiveness of cooperation in all fields, consolidate the foundation of public opinion, better control and handle disagreements at sea, and bring the relationship between the two Parties and two countries to increasingly develop in depth, substantially and sustainably.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/chinh-tri/tong-bi-thu-to-lam-gap-thu-tuong-quoc-vu-vien-trung-quoc-ly-cuong-20251010183737196.htm