Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China has developed finely and reaped many encouraging achievements, with joint efforts of the two parties, governments and peoples, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said. In an interview granted to China’s Xinhua news agency on the occasion of his attendance at the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) on November 4-5, PM Phuc affirmed that the most outstanding achievement is the strengthening of political, diplomatic and economic ties. According to the PM, the two countries have maintained regular mutual visits and high-level contacts, through which the two sides reached common perceptions on many important matters. The political and diplomatic relations between Vietnam and China have laid a foundation for the development of investment, trade and economic ties, with the signing of many investment and economic agreements. China has become one of Vietnam’s most important trading partners with the two-way trade surging, and trade imbalance gradually improving. A string of people-to-people activities, particularly between youths, residents in border areas, have been held, thus positively contributing to enhancing the bilateral time-honoured friendship. Tourism cooperation between Vietnam and China has continued to advance in recent years, and China is Vietnam’s largest source of foreign visitors. The PM cited figures which showed that last year, Vietnam welcomed over 4 million Chinese tourists, up 48.6 percent year-on-year, accounting for over 30 percent of the total international arrivals to Vietnam. In the first ten months of this… [Read full story]
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