Deputy PM Bui Thanh Son to visit China
VGP - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son will visit China from December 8 to 11, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son
The visit will be made at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
During his visit, Bui and Wang will co-chair the 16th session of the Viet Nam-China Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation to discuss major measures to cement and deepen the bilateral ties, spur cooperation among ministries, sectors, and localities, and prepare for the 75th founding anniversary of the Viet Nam-China diplomatic relations (January 18, 1950 – January 18, 2025) and the Viet Nam-China Year of Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges in 2025.
The visit comes as the Viet Nam-China relations have seen significant and comprehensive positive developments.
The two countries agreed to build a Viet Nam-China community with a shared future of strategic significance in December 2023.
Two-way trade between the two countries reached US$168.5 billion in the first 10 months of 2024, a year-on-year increase of over 21 percent. China remains Viet Nam's second largest foreign investor.
Tourism has also seen strong recovery, with three million Chinese tourists visiting Viet Nam this year, making China the second largest source of international visitors to the Southeast Asian country./.
