Vietnamese top leader's visit to lift ties with China to new height: Scholar

Ling Dequan, a researcher at China’s Centre for World Affairs Studies. (Photo: VNA)

Beijing (VNA) - Through the upcoming China visit by Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, the two countries will work more closely in a new journey to build a community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, and actively lift the relations between the two Parties and countries to a new height, stated Ling Dequan, a researcher at China’s Centre for World Affairs Studies.

Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency in Beijing on the threshold of the visit, Ling, an expert of Vietnamese issues and former head of Xinhua news agency's bureau in Hanoi, noted that China is the first foreign destination that the Vietnamese top leader will visit since he was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)'s Central Committee.

This fully demonstrates that the leader and the CPV Central Committee will inherit late Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's political legacy, attach great importance to continuing to uphold the revolutionary friendship between the two countries and reinforcing the traditional solidarity and friendly cooperation between the two Parties and countries, he said.

According to the scholar, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Party and State leaders of China will host the Vietnamese top leader to discuss the plan to enhance mutual political trust and further deepen the comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties and countries in the new situation.

The comprehensive, complementary, and win-win cooperation between China and Vietnam, the two neighbours linked by mountains and rivers with high cooperation potential across all fields, will help effectively promote the cause of socialist building and modernisation in each country.

This not only conforms to the profound aspiration of the people of the two countries but also brings practical benefits to them, Ling underscored.

The researcher said that currently, the two countries are striving to realise outcomes of the historic visit by General Secretary and President Xi Jinping to Vietnam last year. The building of the China-Vietnam Community with a shared future that carries strategic significance has seen a good start. The visit by the Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President, an old friend and a good comrade of China, to China has drawn great attention and received positive evaluation from the people of the two countries, as well as public opinion from the regional and international community, he held.

Ling said he believes that meetings between the two Party and State leaders of Vietnam and China will produce new important results and lead to new steady steps forward, further deepening the building of the community with a shared future with strategic significance.

The two countries are walking together on the path of socialist modernisation with their exclusive characteristics and will actively contribute to peace, stability, development and prosperity of the region and the world at large, the expert underlined./.

VNA