Beijing (VNA) – The ongoing official visit to Vietnam by Chinese Premier Li Qiang has been widely covered by major Chinese news and press agencies, including Xinhua and People’s Daily.

Xinhua quoted Li’s remarks at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on October 12, where he stressed that under the strategic guidance of their high-level leaders, the China-Vietnam relations have been on a solid growth trajectory. He said that since the beginning of this year, the two countries have maintained close high-level exchanges and achieved positive cooperation outcomes across various sectors. He also noted that the building of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future has recorded a promising start.

At their talks in Beijing in August 2024, Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, and Chinese Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping outlined a strategic framework to comprehensively advance the building of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future in the new context, and set a clearer direction for the development of the bilateral relations.

Li affirmed that China consistently regards Vietnam as a priority in its neighborhood diplomacy and is ready to work with Vietnam to build on their traditional friendship, enhance strategic exchanges, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen the foundation of their people’s friendship, and advance the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future in a practical manner, delivering tangible benefits to their people and contributing to peace, stability, and prosperous development in the region and the word.

Meanwhile, according to People’s Daily, at a meeting with Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, the Chinese Premier highlighted China’s readiness to collaborate with Vietnam in implementing the important common perceptions reached by high-ranking leaders of both Parties and countries in maintaining their traditional friendship, increasing high-level meeting and strategic exchanges, solidarity, and close cooperation, and persistently and strongly promoting the building of the Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

Li stated that China is ready to work with Vietnam to step up cooperation in various spheres with higher quality and level and to reinforce the development direction of “six major goals”. He expressed his wish for both countries to jointly promote the “hard connectivity” of railways, highways, and border infrastructure, along with “soft connectivity” like smart customs in a bid to strengthen support for trade and investment and maintain stable, smooth supply chains.

China is also willing to collaborate with Vietnam to further expand economic and trade collaboration, actively pilot cross-border economic cooperation zones, and beef up cooperation in emerging fields like IT, new energy, digital economy, critical minerals and people-to-people exchanges./.