A delegation from the National Defence Institute under the Ministry of National Defence, led by Director of the Institute, Lieutenant General Vo Tien Trung is on a working visit to China from June 26 to July 2.

The visit, made at the invitation of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) National Defence University aims to share experiences in teaching and research work as well as arrange the exchange of visits by senior officials, lecturers and students of the two institutes in the coming time aiming to increase mutual understanding and trust.

At a meeting with Senior Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, Deputy Chief of the PLA General Staff, Lieutenant General Vo Tien Trung highlighted the Vietnam-China traditional friendship, saying that the Vietnamese People’s Army is ready to further cooperation with PLA in order to promote relations between the two countries’ armies.

Trung added that Vietnam is willing to cooperate with China to solve the sensitive issues between the two countries in a satisfactory manner.

Ma Xiaotian stressed that China attaches importance to developing the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with Vietnam as the two countries share the same ideology and goal, pursuing the socialist path under the leadership of the communist party to bring prosperity and happiness to the people./.