Vietnam-China People Friendship Festival kicks off

The Vietnam-China People Friendship Festival 2010 is an event of important significance to help further enrich the content of the two countries’ comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
The Vietnam-China People Friendship Festival 2010 is an event ofimportant significance to help further enrich the content of the twocountries’ comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, said DeputyNational Assembly Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong.

She was addressing the opening ceremony for the Vietnam-China People Friendship Festival in Hanoi on December 11.

Thefestival was co-organised by the Vietnam Union of FriendshipOrganisations (VUFO), the Vietnam-China Friendship Association, theChinese People’s External Friendship Association and the China-VietnamFriendship Association.

Phong said 2010 marks the 60 thanniversary of Vietnam-China diplomatic ties and the Vietnam-ChinaFriendship year so many practical activities have been held in the twocountries.

These activities have contributed to further affirmingand enhancing the traditional friendship of “both comrades andbrothers” which has been built and fostered by the late Presidents HoChi Minh and Mao Zedong and generations of revolutionaries and which isviewed as a valuable asset of the Vietnamese and Chinese nations, Phongstressed.

According to VUFO President Vu Xuan Hong, the festival,under the theme “upholding the tradition to enhance friendship andpromote cooperation for mutual development”, aims to disseminateinformation on the friendship and traditional cooperative ties betweenthe two countries.

Reviewing the Vietnam-China relations over thepast 60 years, the VUFO official asserted that the friendship is avaluable asset of the Vietnamese and Chinese people.

Hong notedthat promoting the friendship and comprehensive cooperation isindispensable for each country’s development, while meeting the twopeoples’ aspiration and desires, and being an important factor to peaceand development in the region and the world.

He said in recentyears, the two countries’ relations have been reinforced and expanded toall fields and that friendship and exchange activities have also beenstepped up from the central to grassroots levels, among people of allwalks of life and especially among young people.

President of theChinese People’s External Friendship Association Chen Haosu emphasisedthat upholding the mutually agreed motto and spirit of “good neighbours,good friends, good comrades and good partners”, cooperation andexchange between the two countries at all levels and in all areas havebeen deepened, serving as a firm foundation for the development of theChina-Vietnam ties in the long term to meet the people’s fundamentalinterests.

Chen proposed that the two sides need to regularlycarry out friendly activities in diverse forms, mobilise people of allwalks of life to participate in and support the friendship cause, worktogether to create an atmosphere of friendship, and attach importance tofurther promoting the traditional friendship and neghbourliness.

Thetwo sides need to deal seriously and calmly with existing disputes inthe two countries’ ties and have a confidence in the two parties andgovernments to appropriately settle those problems, Chen said, notingthat the people’s growing mutual trust will lift the China-Vietnamfriendship and cooperation to a new height.

“We are ready to worktogether with the Vietnamese people with a vision toward the greatcommon cause and the future to enhance mutual trust and cooperation andfurther enrich the content of the agreed motto and spirit to deepen theChina-Vietnam ties in a healthy and stable manner,” Chen said.

On the occasion, the organising board reviewed a contest of knowledge about Vietnam-China friendly ties.

A ceremony was held later at the National Conventional Hall to introduce books on Vietnam-China friendship./.

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