Chinese newspaper: Building China-Vietnam community with shared future holds great global significance

China’s Global Times on April 15 posted an editorial titlted “Building China-Vietnam community with shared future carries great global significance,” on the occasion of the state visit to Vietnam by Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam (R) and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping at their meeting in Hanoi on April 14

It highlighted that this is Xi's first overseas trip this year, and also the first visit to China's neighbouring countries after the central conference on work related to neighbouring countries was held in Beijing last week. The visit has generated widespread attention from the international community.

At the meetings in Hanoi, the two countries’ leaders exchanged in-depth views on the overall, strategic and directional issues of the relations between the two Parties and the two countries, and jointly drew up a new blueprint for the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

The top Chinese leader “proposed six measures to deepen the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future, which include enhancing strategic mutual trust at a higher level, building a more solid security barrier, expanding higher-quality mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthening the ties of wider public opinion, carrying out closer multilateral cooperation, and achieving more benign maritime interactions,” according to the Global Times.

Xi’s trip coincides with the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam. As socialist neighbours connected by mountains and rivers, China and Vietnam are standing at a new starting point for the development of bilateral relations. In recent years, bilateral relations have made a lot of progress, based not only on strategic cooperation on common ideals, beliefs and development pursuits, but also on the actual needs of both sides to achieve complementary advantages and resource sharing in the fields of economy, infrastructure, industrial chain.

The editorial wrote that the bilateral relations have achieved new breakthroughs: from joint efforts in combating transnational crime and the successful holding of the "3+3" strategic dialogue, to the orderly progress in railway connectivity and smart port construction between the two countries, as well as bilateral trade surpassing 260 billion USD and increasingly close cooperation in industrial and supply chains. The realisation of "one-day travel between the two countries" has further brought the two peoples closer together.

As two important countries in the region, their strong cooperation sets a benchmark for other countries in building transnational infrastructure networks and promoting regional economic cooperation, forming a virtuous circle of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.

According to the article, neighbouring countries are China's priority in its diplomacy, and China always gives Vietnam a high priority in its neighbourhood diplomacy. Likewise, Vietnam has always regarded the development of relations with China as a consistent stand and a top priority in its foreign policy.

VNA