Chinese language President Xi Jinping and Vietnamese President To Lam meet on the Nice Corridor of the Individuals on August 19, 2024 in Beijing, China, throughout Mr. Lam’s three-day go to to China, his first abroad go to. | Picture credit score: Getty Photographs
Chinese language President Xi Jinping held talks with Vietnam’s new chief To Lam in Beijing on Monday (Aug 19, 2024) on his first state go to since taking workplace, Chinese language state media Xinhua reported.
The assembly underscores the shut ties between the 2 communist-ruled neighbors, which preserve well-developed financial and commerce relations regardless of occasional border clashes within the energy-rich South China Sea.
China, displaying its enthusiasm for Lam’s selection of China for her first official journey, stated final week that this “totally displays the good significance it attaches to growing ties between the 2 events and nations.”
Mr Lam arrived within the southern Chinese language province of Guangzhou on Sunday (18 August 2024) for a three-day go to that can embody conferences with Chinese language Premier Li Qiang and different senior Chinese language officers.
Throughout his keep in Guangzhou, he visited some locations in China the place former President Ho Chi Minh carried out revolutionary actions.
Final December, China and Vietnam signed greater than a dozen agreements when Mr. Xi visited Vietnam.
The agreements, particulars of which weren’t introduced, cowl strengthening railway cooperation and improvement, investments in numerous fields and establishing communication to deal with sudden incidents within the South China Sea.
In a prolonged joint assertion, each nations stated they might work on cross-border rail connectivity, naming three rail tasks together with one connecting via mountainous Lao Cai in northwest Vietnam to the port metropolis of Haiphong and a possible one linking two coastal cities to Haiphong.
The assertion talked about continued assist for railway corporations from each nations to proceed cooperating to enhance the effectivity of Vietnamese merchandise transiting via China.
He additionally talked about ongoing work on different tasks below China’s flagship infrastructure program, the Belt and Highway Initiative, highlighting funding cooperation in agriculture, infrastructure, vitality, digital economic system, inexperienced improvement and different fields.
China and Vietnam established diplomatic relations in 1950. In 2008, they established a complete strategic partnership of cooperation, which was collectively strengthened 5 years later to increase to extra shared worldwide and regional points.
