Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Vietnamese president, in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 12, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

Xinhua news agency reported that upon arriving at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Premier Li emphasized that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, bilateral relations have been developing steadily.

Since the beginning of the year, the two countries have maintained close high-level exchanges and achieved fruitful cooperation in various fields, and the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future has started well, Li said.

Li pointed out that China has always prioritized its relations with Vietnam in its neighborhood diplomacy, and that China is ready to work with Vietnam to carry forward their traditional friendship, strengthen strategic communication, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, consolidate popular support, and push forward the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future to deepen and achieve solid progress, so as to bring more benefits to the two peoples and make greater contributions to peace, stability, prosperity and development of the region and the world at large.

According to China daily, speaking at a meeting with Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said China is willing to work with Vietnam to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and countries, carry forward the traditional friendship, strengthen high-level exchanges, enhance strategic communication, deepen solidarity and coordination, and firmly promote the building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

Li pointed out that China stands ready to solidify the six major goals of greater political mutual trust, more substantive security cooperation, deeper practical cooperation, more solid popular foundation, closer multilateral coordination and collaboration, and more proper management of differences.

It is hoped that the two sides will simultaneously promote the "hard connectivity" of railway, expressway and port infrastructure and the "soft connectivity" of smart customs to provide solid support for improving the facilitation of trade and investment and safeguarding the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains, Li said.

He said China is willing to work with Vietnam to actively study the pilot construction of cross-border economic cooperation zones, expand cooperation in emerging fields such as information technology, new energy, digital economy, and important minerals, and deepen cultural exchanges.