President Luong Cuong went to Noi Bai International Airport to welcome General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and the high-ranking Chinese delegation.

Also welcoming General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and the high-ranking Chinese delegation at the airport were comrades: Tran Cam Tu, Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat; Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief of the Party Central Committee Office; Tran Sy Thanh, Party Central Committee member, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee; Nguyen Minh Vu, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Pham Thanh Binh, Vietnamese Ambassador to China.

Accompanying General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping on his State visit to Vietnam were comrades: Cai Qi, member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat, Chief of the Central Office; Wang Yi, member of the Politburo, Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Wang Xiaohong, Secretary of the Secretariat, State Councilor, Minister of Public Security; Liu Jianchao, member of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central External Liaison Committee; Dong Jun, member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of National Defense; Zheng Sanjie, member of the Party Central Committee, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission; Wang Wentao, member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Commerce; Tang Fangyu, Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office; He Wei, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Vietnam; Sun Weidong, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Zhaohui, Director of the International Development Cooperation Department.

Welcoming General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and the high-ranking Chinese delegation at Noi Bai International Airport were special drum performances by artists from the drum troupe, along with welcome dances by young women in costumes representing Vietnamese ethnic groups. Along with that, a large number of Vietnamese and Chinese people in Vietnam, officials and staff of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam held flags of the two countries and banners, demonstrating the traditional friendship between the two countries, warmly welcoming General Secretary and President Xi Jinping and the high-ranking Chinese delegation.

The visit of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping is of special significance to the relationship between the two Parties and two countries, continuing to foster friendship and enhance comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and China in the new development period. Taking place less than a year after the State visit to China by General Secretary To Lam, this State visit to Vietnam by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping is an important foreign political event of the two Parties and two countries, with strategic significance and long-term impact on the development of Vietnam-China relations in the context that the two countries are entering a new era, a new era of development.

This is Comrade Xi Jinping's fourth visit to Vietnam as the highest leader of the Party and State of China and the second visit during the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; especially taking place during the "Year of Humanitarian Exchange", commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-China diplomatic relations (1950-2025). The visit demonstrates China's importance and priority in consolidating and further enhancing the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and the Vietnam-China Community of Shared Future, which has strategic significance.

Offering a warm welcome to General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping, Vietnam affirmed the foreign policy of the 13th National Party Congress to be independent and self-reliant; diversify and multilateralize foreign relations, in which top priority is given to relations with neighboring countries, consistently attaching importance to developing stable and long-term relations with China on the basis of mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit, promoting positive trends, similarities, and connections between the two Parties and two countries.

During the visit, General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping is expected to hold high-level talks and meetings with General Secretary To Lam, President Luong Cuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man to discuss measures, directions and major orientations to promote bilateral relations in various fields. In addition, General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping will also participate in a number of other important foreign affairs activities.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/tong-bi-thu-chu-tich-trung-quoc-tap-can-binh-den-ha-noi-bat-dau-tham-cap-nha-nuoc-toi-viet-nam-post872282.html