Beijing, Hanoi eye closer ties

Foreign ministers pledge to continue to boost bilateral exchanges, collaboration

Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Thursday.

Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, noted that relations between the two nations strengthened rapidly last year after the top leaders of the CPC and the Communist Party of Vietnam jointly announced the development of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, giving a new meaning to the concept "so profound is the friendship between Vietnam and China, because we are both comrades and brothers".

Since the beginning of this year, the top leaders of the two parties have exchanged New Year's greetings, and senior party officials have paid visits to each other's nations, Wang said, adding that border provincial-level regions have also actively promoted cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.