Prime Minister receives leaders of Guangxi province, China

On the evening of September 20, in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, China, on the occasion of attending the ASEAN-China Expo and the 9th ASEAN-China Trade and Investment Summit, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a meeting with Secretary of Guangxi Province Guo Shengkun and Chairman of Guangxi Province Ma Xiao.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung looks at products on display at the ASEAN-China Expo. (Photo: Duc Tam/VNA)

Secretary of Guangxi Province Guo Shengkun and Chairman of Guangxi Province Ma Xiao warmly welcomed and thanked Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung for attending the 9th ASEAN-China Trade and Investment Fair and Summit, demonstrating the importance of the Party, Government and people of Vietnam to consolidating and enhancing the friendly neighborly relations and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and China, which is an important encouragement and contribution to the success of this ASEAN-China Trade and Investment Fair and Summit, contributing to further tightening the relationship between Vietnamese localities and Guangxi Province.

Leaders of Guangxi province expressed their delight at the strong development of relations between Vietnamese localities, especially border provinces with Guangxi in recent times, affirming that the Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi will do their utmost to promote the friendly relations and comprehensive cooperation for mutual benefit with Vietnamese localities.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung congratulated the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on successfully organizing the 10th Party Congress, highly appreciated the great achievements that the people of Guangxi have achieved in the cause of reform, opening up and socio-economic development; and also appreciated the role of Guangxi in organizing the annual ASEAN-China Trade and Investment Summit and Fair.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung expressed his satisfaction with the positive development of the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and the relations between Vietnamese ministries, sectors and localities with Guangxi province in recent times, which have been continuously consolidated and developed, contributing to enhancing the friendship and understanding between the people of the two countries.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung affirmed that the Vietnamese Party and Government will continue to strongly support further deepening the friendly neighborly relations and comprehensive, mutually beneficial cooperation between Vietnamese localities and Guangxi province.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the two sides need to thoroughly grasp the direction of the two countries' senior leaders in promoting economic, trade and investment cooperation in all fields to continuously deepen on the basis of exploiting the potential and strengths of each locality, creating favorable conditions for border trade activities, enhancing transport connections to create economic ties between Vietnamese localities and Guangxi; increase delegation exchanges at all levels, promote exchanges between the people of the two countries, especially the young generation; continue to cooperate and coordinate to well manage the border area, strictly implement three documents related to the land border and two Agreements on the Gulf of Tonkin to build the border between the two countries into a truly peaceful, friendly, stable, cooperative and developed border./.

According to (TTXVN)-LT