Beijing and Hanoi united in their desire to ensure stable regional environment

President Xi Jinping's meeting with visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Beijing on Wednesday again sent a strong message to the outside world that Beijing and Hanoi are intent on consolidating their unity and friendship.

Chinh is on a four-day working visit to China starting Monday, and his itinerary includes attending the 15th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, Liaoning province. His visit is the latest in a series of recent high-level exchanges between the two neighbors, and underscores their mutual efforts to continuously inject fresh vitality into bilateral ties and stand together in the face of the complex and challenging global situation.

In December last year, during a visit to Hanoi, President Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, announced the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, elevating bilateral ties to a new stage.