HANOI - Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping held talks with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang here on Wednesday on strengthening relations between China and Vietnam.
Xi said that under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the Vietnamese people actively explored a development path that suits the country's own conditions and advanced the reforms in an all-around way, gaining progress and prosperity.
He said under the leadership of the CPV, the Vietnamese people will surely make new and greater progress in the social and economic fields.
Since the normalization of bilateral relations 20 years ago, Xi said, China-Vietnam relations have made steady progress due to three major reasons.
First, similar sufferings in history laid the foundation for China-Vietnam relations. The traditional friendship forged during revolutionary times involved the wisdom and painstaking efforts of the older leaders of the two parties. It is both countries' joint responsibility to carry on the friendship from generation to generation.
Second, extensive mutual interests laid the political foundation for China-Vietnam relations. Adhering to the socialist path, consolidating the basis for the Communist Party of China and CPV to govern their respective countries are our common strategic objectives, and the important political basis for maintaining mutual strategic interests.
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