The two sides should accelerate the construction of a "smart border gate" model to facilitate and improve the efficiency of customs clearance; promote technology transfer to apply smart and high technologies in growing fruit trees; promote and introduce specialty products, OCOP (one commune one product) products, and typical industrial products.
On behalf of the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence, Chien commended the involved agencies and units for their efforts in preparing and organising the exchange. He stressed the need to continue maintaining border exchanges with China and neighbouring countries, exploring content, forms, and methods of organisation to make future exchanges even more diverse.
The ninth border defence friendship exchange between Vietnam and China is scheduled to take place in Vietnam’s northern province of Lang Son and China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on April 16-17.
The railway line from Fangchenggang to Dongxing in China, which was launched in 2023, is expected to connect with the Mong Cai-Ha Long-Hai Phong railway line. Meanwhile, the Nanning-Chongzuo-Pingxiang route is expected to be completed and put into operation by the end of this year, and it will connect with the Dong Dang-Hanoi line.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son emphasised the long-standing friendship between Vietnam and China during his talks with Chen Gang, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in Hanoi on February 19.
Vietnam consistently regards the development of its relations with China as an objective requirement, a strategic choice, and a top priority in its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralism and diversification of external relations.
A film about the traditional friendship between China and Vietnam has been recently introduced in Beijing by the Film Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC).
The pilot of smart border gate, cooperation in vocational training, and social development assistance programmes for northern Vietnamese provinces were on the table at the talks held in the northern province of Lang Son on December 18 to bolster Vietnam – China development cooperation.
Authorities of the northern border province of Lang Son and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China held an online signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a pilot smart border gate.
A fixed passenger bus route connecting Ha Long in the northern province of Quang Ninh and Nanning city in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region through Bac Luan II Bridge, part of the Mong Cai (Quang Ninh, Vietnam) - Dongxing (Guangxi, China) international border gates was officially launched on September 3.
Secretary of the Party Committee of the northern border province of Cao Bang Tran Hong Minh on August 29 received a working delegation from Baise city of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region led by Secretary of the city’s Party Committee Huang Rusheng.
A trade and investment promotion conference between Ho Chi Minh City and China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was held in Vietnam’s southern largest economic hub on August 27.
The People’s Council of Cao Bang held talks with the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Baise city, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, in the northern border Vietnamese province on April 25.
Nong Shengwen, standing member of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Secretary of the Nanning city Party Committee, led a delegation on a working visit to the northern province of Ha Nam on April 20.
Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China Liu Ning discussed measures to further promote relations between Vietnamese ministries and agencies, and Guangxi province of China at their meeting in Chongzuo city on April 3.
A talk exchanging information on disease prevention and control, and healthcare activities between delegations of the Department of Health of Vietnam's Cao Bang province and the Health Commission of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was organised in Cao Bang city on March 5.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the northern border province of Lang Son has recently organised an art exchange programme with the participation of local artists and those from Pingxiang county in China's Guangxi.
The pair of border gates between Tra Linh in Cao Bang province of Vietnam and Longbang in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have been upgraded into international ones recently.
