Top Chinese leader Xi Jinping invited to visit Vietnam this year

Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member, permanent member of the Communist party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat, extended the invitations from CPV General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and State President Vo Van Thuong, to Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Beijing on April 26.

Mai, who is also head of the committee’s Organisation Commission, is in Beijing for an official visit to China from April 25 to 28.

At the meeting, she said her visit aims to realise important common perceptions reached by senior leaders of the two Parties and countries, particularly the contents of the Joint Statement on further promoting and deepening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China reached during the China visit by Party General Secretary Trong last year.

Vietnam always treasures and gives top priority to the development of its relationship with China based on the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation, development, multilateralisation and diversification of relations, she told her host.

Xi, for his part, extended his greetings to senior Vietnamese leaders, and stressed that the Chinese Party and State attach importance to ties between the two Parties and States.

The Chinese Party and State stay ready to foster friendship, political trust and solidarity between the two nations, toward deepening bilateral cooperation in a practical and effective manner, affirmed Xi. 

Also the same day, Mai held talks with Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, Secretary of the CCP Central Committee’s Secretariat and Director of the CCP Central Committee’s General Office, discussing orientations to future cooperation in various areas.

Both sides agreed to enhance political trust through increasing high-level exchanges and improving the effectiveness of cooperation mechanisms, resolving disagreements and differences satisfactorily. They also pledged to step up substantial progress in cooperative areas, with a focus on reinforcing balanced and sustainable economic cooperation. They consented to strengthen national defence-security cooperation while increasing people-to-people and locality-to-locality exchanges.

Mai also held a working session with Li Ganjie, Politburo member, Secretary of the CCP Central Committee’s Secretariat and head of the CCP Central Committee’s Organisation Commission.

They two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the two organisation commissions.