BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Communist Party of Vietnam and the two countries have found a promising path for jointly building a community with a shared future for humanity, Chinese President Xi Jinping said .
Xi made the comments in a signed article published in the Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan Daily on Tuesday ahead of his visit to the country, titled “Building a strategically important Sino-Vietnamese community with a shared future and jointly writing a new chapter of our modernization.” carries.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the China-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Partnership, Xi stressed. “Regardless of how the global environment has changed, our two parties and countries have worked together to maintain peace and tranquility, advance development and cooperation, and promote prosperity and progress. We have found a promising way to build together a community with a shared future humanity,” he said.
The two countries maintain a trusting exchange. The leaders of the two parties and countries frequently visited each other as if they were family members, Xi noted.
The two countries have expanded their common interests through mutually beneficial cooperation. China has long been Vietnam's largest trading partner and Vietnam is China's largest trading partner in ASEAN and the fourth largest in the world, he said.
The two countries have brought the two people closer together through friendly exchanges. Travel between the two countries recovered quickly this year. From January to October, Chinese tourists visited Vietnam more than 1.3 million times, it said.
The two countries have always treated each other with sincerity. As two strong advocates of multilateralism, both China and Vietnam value the importance of peaceful dialogue, consultation and cooperation and firmly adhere to the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, the Chinese stressed President.
“We support each other on issues affecting our respective core interests and key concerns, and maintain close coordination in regional and international cooperation mechanisms,” he said.
“Vietnam is an important player in the Friends of the Global Development Initiative group. “It supports the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative and supports China's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Xi stressed. End