General Secretary To Lam's visit to China is a particularly important diplomatic activity.

First and foremost, both sides will continue to maintain high-level strategic exchanges, strengthen the foundation of political trust, and enhance the direction for the development of bilateral relations in the new phase.

In addition, the two sides also agreed on major directions and measures to effectively build the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future, which has strategic significance, in line with the "six more" orientation agreed upon by both sides.

The focus is on continuing to concretize the high-level common understanding and signed agreements to bring about new progress in substantive cooperation, especially in areas of mutual interest such as railway connectivity, agricultural trade, high-quality investment, finance and monetary affairs, culture and tourism, and people-to-people exchanges.

Through frank, sincere, and substantive exchanges on territorial border issues, both sides will work together to adequately address existing problems, better control and resolve disagreements at sea, and prevent maritime issues from affecting the healthy development of relations between the two Parties and countries, contributing to maintaining peace, stability, cooperation, and development in the region and the world.

Mr. Son expressed confidence that, with the special attention and close coordination of both sides, the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife will become a new milestone, opening a new phase of development for the friendly neighborly relations, comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, and shared future community between Vietnam and China, which have strategic significance.

The Vietnam-China relationship is the deepest, most comprehensive, and most substantive it has ever been.

Assessing the achievements of cooperation between Vietnam and China in recent years, Mr. Son said that Vietnam-China relations, after more than 30 years of normalization, especially after more than 15 years since the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership framework in 2008, have made rapid and increasingly profound and comprehensive progress in various fields.

In particular, following the historic official visit of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to China in October 2022 and the third state visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping in December 2023, both sides agreed to further deepen and elevate the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, building a strategically significant Vietnam-China community with a shared future based on the "six more" orientation, opening a new chapter for bilateral relations.

Since the beginning of 2024, relations between the two countries have maintained positive momentum, with a strong atmosphere of cooperation spreading to all levels, sectors, and segments of the population.

Both sides assessed that bilateral relations are currently at their deepest, most comprehensive, and most substantive level ever.

Minister Bui Thanh Son stated that the achievements of cooperation between the two countries are clearly demonstrated in three areas.

Regarding exchanges and contacts at high levels and at all levels from central to local, activities are maintained regularly in various flexible forms, thereby contributing to strengthening political trust and creating new momentum for all levels and sectors on both sides.

Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has had two key delegations, including the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the National Assembly, visit and work in China.

In addition, several members of the Politburo, Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and leaders of various ministries, departments, and localities in Vietnam have visited China.

The two sides also opened up new areas of cooperation, establishing additional mechanisms for annual high-level exchanges between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the National People's Congress of China.

Recently, the Chinese Communist Party and State expressed their special affection and respect for the passing of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party promptly sent a message of condolences.

General Secretary and President Xi Jinping paid his respects at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing, sending a special representative, Politburo Standing Committee member and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Wang Huning, to attend the ceremony.

Impressive import and export figures.

Regarding bilateral economic, trade, and investment cooperation between the two countries, it continues to grow, with impressive figures such as import and export turnover. In the first six months alone, it increased by 24.1% compared to the same period in 2023, reaching 94.5 billion USD.

Tourism is recovering strongly (in the first 7 months of the year, 2.1 million Chinese tourists visited Vietnam, higher than the whole of 2023).

Agricultural cooperation between the two countries has seen new progress, with both sides having essentially completed the procedures for the official export of several Vietnamese agricultural products to China, such as frozen durian, fresh coconut, fresh chili peppers, and passion fruit.

People-to-people exchanges have been strengthened, and the number of Vietnamese students studying in China has reached over 23,000, double the number before the Covid-19 pandemic.

In particular, the overall situation on the land borders remains stable. The situation in the South China Sea is basically well controlled.

Mechanisms for exchange and negotiation between the two sides on maritime issues are maintained regularly.

Both sides are looking forward to organizing activities to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Land Border Treaty and the 15th anniversary of the signing of three legal documents on the Vietnam-China land border.