Party General Secretary and President To Lam. (Photo: dangcongsan.vn)

This will be Mr. To Lam’s first visit abroad in his capacity as Party General Secretary and President of Vietnam and is an extremely important foreign affairs activity between Vietnam and China this year, which will have a huge impact on the development of relations between the two Parties and two countries.

The visit demonstrates the interest both sides have in consolidating and developing their Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future.

Le Hoai Trung, head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations said that the top leaders of Vietnam and China will review the relationship between the two Parties and countries, particularly the results of agreements reached during the visit of former Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to China in 2022 and the visit of Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping to Vietnam in 2023.

According to Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, the two sides expect the visit to achieve results in a number of areas, consolidate political trust, and strengthen bilateral relations in the new period.

They will agree on major directions and measures to effectively build a Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, discuss candidly, sincerely, and substantively territorial border issues, work together to properly handle existing problems, better control and resolve disagreements at sea, and not let problems at sea affect the healthy development of relations between the two Parties and two countries, contributing to maintaining peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.

Minister Son said he believes that with the special respect and close coordination of both sides, the state visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife will be a great success and become a new milestone, opening a new stage of development for friendly neighborly relations, comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, and a Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.