Prime Minister receives Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

The Prime Minister emphasized the need to effectively implement the common perception of the two countries' senior leaders on enhancing substantive and mutually beneficial cooperation.

On the evening of February 10, in Quang Ninh, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee Peng Qinghua, who is visiting Vietnam to attend the second Spring Meeting with Party Secretaries of Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Ha Giang, and Cao Bang provinces (Vietnam).

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee Peng Qinghua (China).

Pleased to meet again with Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee Peng Qinghua, the Prime Minister emphasized that this Spring Meeting took place after General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's visit to China (January 2017), contributing to promoting the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership to develop stably, healthily, and in depth; creating conditions and encouraging localities of the two countries, especially border localities, to enhance friendly exchanges and mutually beneficial substantive cooperation.

On this occasion, the Prime Minister once again expressed his sincere thanks for the warm and thoughtful reception that Secretary Peng Qinghua and the people of Guangxi gave to the Prime Minister and the Vietnamese Government Delegation during their attendance at the 13th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) in September 2016.

For his part, Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee Peng Qinghua expressed his joy, honor and emotion to be received by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and emphasized that last September, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc led the largest Vietnamese delegation to attend the 13th China-ASEAN Expo, which greatly contributed to the success of the expo.

Secretary Peng Qinghua respectfully invited Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to Guangxi to attend the 14th China-ASEAN Expo in September this year.

On the occasion of the New Year of the Rooster 2017, on behalf of 55 million people of Guangxi, Secretary Peng Qinghua sent the best wishes to the Prime Minister.

Secretary Peng Qinghua also informed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc about the good results of the 2017 Spring Talks between him and the Secretaries of Vietnamese Provincial Party Committees, and expressed his wish to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam's border provinces in trade and investment, establish pairs of border gates, and promote bilateral trade.

Currently, there are 12 pairs of border gates between Guangxi and the border provinces of Vietnam and it is desired to upgrade qualified border gates into international border gates.

Besides promoting economic and trade cooperation, Guangxi wishes to cooperate with Vietnam in tourism, and hopes that both sides will promote infrastructure investment, build highways and traffic connections; and strengthen cooperation in the fields of education and training.

Welcoming the results achieved at the talks between Guangxi and four Vietnamese provinces, the Prime Minister affirmed that the Party, State and Government of Vietnam always attach importance to enhancing effective and substantive cooperation with Chinese localities, including Guangxi.

The fact that Secretary of the Guangxi Regional Party Committee Peng Qinghua has visited Vietnam five times shows the importance that the Party Committee, the Guangxi government and Secretary Peng Qinghua personally attach to promoting the friendly and cooperative relations between Guangxi and Vietnamese localities.

Overview of the reception.

The Prime Minister agreed with Secretary Peng Qinghua on promoting traffic connectivity, border trade connectivity, and tourism development; and said that Vietnam is considering investing in the Mong Cai-Ha Long and Cao Bang-Lang Son expressways.

Of the 100 billion USD trade turnover between the two countries, Vietnam's turnover with Guangxi alone is 25 billion USD. The two sides held the 8th Conference of the Joint Working Committee between the four border provinces of Vietnam and Guangxi, actively promoting infrastructure connectivity; the overall plan for building the Vietnam - China Cross-Border Economic Cooperation Zone.

However, the Prime Minister pointed out that the implementation of some agreements between the two sides is slow; economic and trade cooperation still has a lot of potential and room for development but is not really balanced and healthy.

Therefore, the Prime Minister suggested that both sides strengthen the friendly neighborly relations between the two countries’ localities. Guangxi and Vietnamese localities need to continue to take the lead in strengthening the solidarity and tradition of friendly neighborliness between the two peoples; continue to maintain and enhance exchanges and contacts between leaders at all levels; promote people-to-people exchanges, and make positive contributions to the Vietnam-China strategic cooperation.

The two sides need to effectively implement the common perception of the two countries' senior leaders on enhancing substantive and mutually beneficial cooperation areas. Accordingly, Guangxi needs to expand the import of competitive Vietnamese products such as agricultural, forestry, aquatic products, rice, dairy products, meat and fruits; encourage reputable and capable Guangxi enterprises to invest in economic development projects, improve transport infrastructure in border areas; and strengthen cooperation in culture, education, tourism and agriculture.

The Prime Minister also suggested that the two sides strengthen cooperation in border management, creating favorable conditions for cooperation and development between the two sides.

Accordingly, it is necessary to strengthen border management, maintain social order and security in the border areas of the two countries; effectively implement the Agreement on cooperation in protecting and exploiting tourism resources in the Ban Gioc Waterfall area and the Agreement on vessels traveling in the area of ​​free vessel movement at the mouth of the Bac Luan River; promote the opening and upgrading of border gate pairs; facilitate customs clearance of goods at border gate pairs, limit congestion of goods, especially agricultural products during the peak harvest season; effectively implement agreements on cooperation in managing cross-border labor, ensuring legitimate rights for seasonal workers in the border areas of the two countries.

On the occasion of the New Year of the Rooster, the Prime Minister wished Secretary Peng Qinghua and members of the Guangxi delegation good health, happiness and success, and wished Guangxi comprehensive development./.

According to VOV