VOV.VN - The 9th Vietnam–China border defence friendship exchange has opened with wide-ranging activities, highlighting both countries' commitment to building trust and deepening defence cooperation.

Vietnam and China have issued a joint statement on continuing to deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and promoting the building of a Vietnam - China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

VOV.VN - Professor Xu Liping, director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS), described Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping’s recent Vietnam visit as the most successful visit to date, with outstanding and far-reaching outcomes.

During Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam, leaders of the two countries jointly outlined a new blueprint for building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future, which contributes to strengthening regional peace and stability, promoting economic development.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has shown its readiness for the ninth border defence friendship exchange with China, following a full rehearsal of the event in Lang Son province on April 15.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and China will strengthen the comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership and successfully build a joint community with a shared future, focusing on cooperation, cultural exchange, and mutual support for regional stability and development.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and China will work close together to successfully build a joint community with a share future that carries strategic significance.

Developing a sustainable and long-lasting relationship with China by constantly strengthening political trust and deepening substantive cooperation, is a consistent policy, an objective requirement, a strategic choice, and a top priority in Vietnam’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, and multilateralisation and diversification of foreign relations, said Politburo member Tran Cam Tu.

Vietnam and China have signed seven important cooperation documents in the railway and road sectors, including two intergovernmental treaties, two official development assistance (ODA) agreements between the two governments, and three ministerial-level accords.

Efforts are being ramped up to fast-track three railway projects linking Vietnam and China, with the aim of making them symbolic project in bilateral cooperation, according to the Ministry of Construction.