Beijing (VNA) – A delegation from the Nhan Dan (People) Newspaperled by member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee andEditor-in-Chief Le Quoc Minh is paying a working trip to China from April 21-26as guests of the People’s Daily - the organ of the Communist Party ofChina (CPC) Central Committee.

Hosting a reception for the delegation on April 22, Politburo member, Secretaryof the CPC Central Committee’s Secretariat and Head of the Publicity Departmentof the CPC Central Committee Li Shulei said the visit is significant topromoting exchange and cooperation between the Nhan Dan Newspaper and thePeople’s Daily, thereby helping to enhance mutual understanding and friendshipbetween the two nations.

Emphasising the new positioning of the bilateral ties, which was agreed upon bytop leaders of the two Parties and countries in late last year, Li highlightedthat the visit contributed to realising high-level common perceptions,particularly in the areas of communications, ideology, culture, press andpractical and theoretical exchanges.

He requested the two newspapers to enhance practical cooperation and experiencesharing, and promote the popularisation of the socio-economic developmentachievements of each other and their friendship, creating a strong socialfoundation to further foster bolster the bilateral relations in all fields.

Minh, who is also Vice Chairman of the CPV Central Committee's Commission forInformation and Education and Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association,briefed the Chinese official on the Nhan Dan Newspaper’s innovation in terms ofboth content and form to catch up with the socio-economic development,technology trends and readers’ changing thought.

The Nhan Dan Newspaper has set up close relations with the People’s Daily,and the resumption of delegation exchanges between the two newspapers after ahiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up cooperation opportunities forthe two newspapers as well as media and press agencies in the two countries asa whole, he stressed.

Later on the same day, Minh held talks with President of the People’s Daily Tuo Zhen, during which they reviewed the cooperative ties between the twonewspapers and underscored their roles in the revolutionary press cause as wellas the process off national construction and development in each country.

They also exchanged experiences in newsroom management and press developmentwith various media platforms, while reaching consensus on stepping up bilateralcooperation and exchanges between leaders, professional departments,publications, reporters and editors of the two newspapers in a more practicaland effective way, making it to be on a par with the sound relations betweenthe two Parties and nations.

Earlier, the delegation visited and had working sessions with the VietnameseEmbassy and several Vietnamese press agencies in Beijing./.