Vietnam's Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu and Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) Luo Zhaohui have expressed their readiness to well implement high-level common perceptions, striving to realise signed projects and documents on development cooperation, especially in transport connectivity, human resources training and improving living conditions of people.

A ceremony was held on November 21 to hand over the Hanoi-based Vietnam-China Friendship Palace following its period of maintenance.

The annual Vietnam-China deputy foreign ministers’ meeting was held in China’s Guangzhou province on February 5-6 to review the bilateral ties in 2017 and discuss the focus of exchange activities and cooperation between the two countries in 2018, along with other issues in the relationship.

Vietnam and China inked a number of cooperation documents and agreements in Hanoi on November 5.