HANOI, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- China and Vietnam on Tuesday agreed to build a community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.
The two sides have announced the new positioning of relations between the two parties and countries and agreed to build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance on the basis of deepening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two sides.
The announcement was made during the ongoing state visit to Vietnam by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president.
Upon Xi's arrival in Hanoi, he had a meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), during which Xi said the two parties should grasp the special strategic significance of China-Vietnam relations and make solid progress in building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future from the perspective of strengthening the socialist forces in the world and ensuring the steady and long-term progress of their respective cause of socialist construction.
Xi made a six-point proposal on building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, the first of which is to keep to the right political direction.
China and Vietnam should adhere to high-level strategic guidance, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning on party and state governance, and jointly deepen understanding of the ruling laws of Communist parties, as well as the laws of socialist construction and the development of human society, Xi said.
The two countries should firmly support one another on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns, and jointly uphold international equity and justice, he said.
Both sides should also deepen mutual trust on security, Xi said.
The two sides must prioritize national political security, ensure the red flag of socialism not to be changed, and spare no effort to prevent, defuse and contain all kinds of political and security risks, he said.
China firmly supports Vietnam in maintaining social stability and ethnic unity, and believes Vietnam will continue to support China in opposing external interference and firmly advancing the great cause of national reunification, he said.
Xi said the two countries should upgrade practical cooperation.
The modernization that includes the whole of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people is a great opportunity brought by China to the world, he said, adding that China is willing to share opportunities and seek common development with its Vietnamese comrades.
An active alignment with the eight major steps to support high-quality Belt and Road cooperation by the Vietnamese side is welcomed, Xi said, calling for expanding cooperation in such emerging areas as digital economy and green development.
The two sides should jointly implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, safeguard the global trading system, and build a secure, stable, unimpeded, efficient, open, inclusive and mutually beneficial global industrial chain and supply chain, he said.
China will continue to encourage competent Chinese enterprises to invest and do business in Vietnam and hopes that Vietnam will provide a good business environment for Chinese enterprises, he added.
The Chinese president also called for more input to cement the popular support for China-Vietnam friendship.
Bilateral cooperation should have a heavier focus on agriculture, education, health care and other fields concerning people's livelihood, Xi said, adding that the two sides should strengthen cooperation in such areas as youth, tourism as well as at the local level, deepen the two peoples' understanding of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future and of the traditional friendship between the two parties and countries, and enhance the bonds between the young generation of the two countries, so as to cement the popular support for China-Vietnam friendship.
China and Vietnam should work closely on international and regional issues, Xi continued, noting that the remarkable development achievements of the two countries are the result of both the hard work of both sides and an open and inclusive world, especially a peaceful and stable Asia Pacific.
China does not engage in exclusive cliques, block politics or camp confrontation, Xi said, adding that China is ready to strengthen multilateral cooperation with Vietnam, and work with Vietnam to uphold genuine multilateralism, and increase the voice and influence of developing countries in international affairs.
Xi also called on the two countries to manage differences on maritime issues.
The two sides should actively discuss and carry out more maritime cooperation projects, strive to promote joint maritime development, and turn challenges posed by maritime issues into opportunities of bilateral cooperation, he added. ■
