Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese delegation left for the Summit in Tianjin, China.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi on the evening of August 30 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 and work in China from August 31 to September 1.
The delegation included Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc; Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Vu Hong Thanh; Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh; Acting Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang; Deputy Minister of National Defense, Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien; Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu; Deputy Minister of Public Security, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long...
The SCO 2025 Summit will be held in Tianjin, China, and is expected to be attended by more than 20 leaders of countries (including 10 official members of the SCO). Among them are: General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi... and observer countries, dialogue partner countries, and a number of countries attending as guests of the host country and leaders of a number of international organizations.
The conference, themed "Implementing multilateralism, maintaining regional security, promoting sustainable development", will be an opportunity for heads of government of SCO member states as well as invited leaders to share and discuss specific measures to enhance dialogue cooperation, strengthen multilateralism to maintain and ensure regional stability and security, as well as promote cooperation for sustainable development.
Before the working trip, Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu said that Party and State leaders have been invited many times to attend many expanded summits of organizations and mechanisms of which Vietnam is not a member, such as G7, G20, BRICS and now SCO. This shows that international friends and partners highly value Vietnam's role and position; and want to listen to Vietnam's views and voices on security, political and development issues of the region and the world.
The Prime Minister will meet with Chinese leaders, ministries, sectors and businesses to continue deepening the Vietnam-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and Community of Shared Future, especially promoting substantive cooperation in economics, trade and investment, and major projects on strategic infrastructure development.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the upcoming exchanges between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chinese leaders will contribute to enhancing strategic exchanges, continuing to consolidate strategic trust and finding solutions to handle the remaining differences and disagreements in the relationship between the two countries, thereby continuing to maintain a peaceful and stable environment for the country.
Cooperation between Vietnam and China has continued to develop strongly in recent times. According to Vietnam's statistics, bilateral trade turnover in 2024 reached 205.2 billion USD, an increase of 19.3%; in the first 7 months of the year, it increased by over 21%.
Tourism cooperation has recovered and grown strongly, with China returning to the top position in the number of tourists to Vietnam with more than 3.1 million arrivals in the first 7 months of the year, accounting for 22.5% of total international arrivals to Vietnam.
Some key areas of cooperation in strategic infrastructure development such as railways have made clear progress; Vietnam's key agricultural products exported to China have also grown strongly.
In addition to durian, which has a total export turnover of over 3 billion USD in 2024, a number of other key agricultural products will continue to be freely exported to the Chinese market.
People-to-people exchanges have been vibrant in recent times, especially in the context that this year is the Vietnam-China Humanitarian Exchange Year to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
