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China, Vietnam express willingness to fully implement consensus between their leaders

Xinhua, July 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli met with Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) here on Friday, and both sides expressed willingness to fully implement consensus reached between their leaders.

Zhang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said the two countries have been earnestly implementing the consensus reached between the CPV chief and Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, during Trong's visit to China in April.

Zhang said the purpose of his Vietnam trip is to further implement the consensus by discussing with the Vietnamese side concrete measures to boost strategic communication, political trust, practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

Zhang said the development of the state-to-state relationship, as well as the party-to-party cooperation, helps to consolidate the parties' status, advance their socialist undertakings and promote peace and stability in the region.

During the meeting, Zhang congratulated the Vietnamese side on its progress under the leadership of the CPV and also proposed the two sides upgrade their cooperation, conjoin their development strategies so as to attain more win-win results.

Hailing the significance of Zhang's visit as the two countries celebrate the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic ties, Trong, for his part, said he himself and the CPV Central Committee attach great importance to the friendship and partnership with China.

Trong said he is happy to see China's achievements of reform and opening up as well as its important contribution to regional and global peace and development.

Recalling his visits to China and phone conversations with General Secretary Xi, Trong said the two party leaders have reached extensive consensus on the development of the relationship between the two parties as well as the two nations and it demonstrates their confidence and determination to get along well with each other from generation to generation.

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli arrived in Hanoi on Thursday for an official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the CPV Central Committee.

Wang Jiarui, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended Friday's meeting in Hanoi. Endi