Vietnamese, Chinese localities work to promote cooperation
Over the past years, the northern province of Lang Son has actively promoted the effectiveness of friendly exchanges, and cooperation programmes and mechanisms with China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Tourists visit landmark 1116 at Huu Nghi border gate in Lang Son province. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)൲ – Over the past years, the northernprovince of Lang Son has actively promoted the effectiveness of friendlyexchanges, and cooperation programmes and mechanisms with China’sGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Agencies and localities of both sides have maintained regular exchanges and concretised cooperation contents.
෴ Lang Sonshares a 231.7km borderline with China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It isalso an important gateway in exchange activities between Vietnam and China, aswell as between the ASEAN region and China, not only in economy and trade but also in culture.
LangSon and Guangxi have effectively coordinated in preventing and combating theCOVID-19 pandemic as a basis for maintaining customs clearance activities, stepping up economic cooperation, upgrading border gates, and promoting import and exportof goods, border management and collaboration in combating crime andillegal immigration across the border, thus building a border area of peace,friendship, cooperation and development. The two sides have maintained regular exchangesand meetings between their senior leaders, and directed border districtsand towns to increase contacts and promote cooperation. Existingmechanisms and activities have been promoted such as the spring meeting between the Secretaries of the Party Committees of Vietnam's Lang Son, Quang Ninh, Cao Bang and HaGiang provinces and the Secretary of Guangxi province's Party Committee, the Joint Committee mechanism between the four border provincesof Vietnam and China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and periodic meetings and talks between departments, agencies, organisations, competent forces, districts and cities of the two sides.
Thetwo sides create favourable conditions for people in border areas to enhance traditionalneighbourliness, visit relatives, boost business cooperation and goods exchanges,and establish friendly relations between residential clusters.
Five border districts and Lang Son city of the province have established international friendly district/town relations and 12 Lang Son villages have signed "village friendship" agreements with their counterparts in Guangxi. Cultural-sports and youth exchangeactivities have been maintained. In addition, the two sides have also activelyimplemented effective external relations activities and international cooperationin the fields of tourism, education and training, labour, agro-forestry, science-technology, and finance.
🍸 Last year, the Party Committee,People's Council, People's Committee and agencies of Lang Sonprovince signed 12 agreements and memoranda of understanding with partners from Guangxi, creating a foundation for restoring comprehensive cooperationbetween agencies and sectors of the two sides in various fields after theCOVID-19 pandemic.
Accordingto Lang Son’s Department of Foreign Affairs, in the coming time, the two sideswill continue to effectively implement the common perceptions reached by the two countries' high-ranking Party and State leaders, as well as to enhance exchanges and cooperation between their agencies and localities in various fields./.
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Tourists visit landmark 1116 at Huu Nghi border gate in Lang Son province. (Photo: VNA) 
