Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh meets top Chinese leader Xi Jinping
VGP – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on Sunday.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (left) meets with General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping in Tianjin, China, August 31, 2025. Photo: VGP
Prime Minister Pham conveyed the greetings and best wishes from General Secretary To Lam, State President Luong Cuong and other senior Vietnamese leaders to Xi and other senior Chinese leaders.
He thanked China for sending a high-level delegation and military unit to attend the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and the National Day of Viet Nam.
Pham congratulated on China's great development achievements under the leadership of the Communist Party of China with Xi as the "core", making China a leading driving force for global growth.
He affirmed Viet Nam stands ready to coordinate with China and other countries to promote multilateralism and sustainable development, and contribute to settling major issues in the region and the world.
Viet Nam always considers developing the relations with China as an objective requirement, a strategic choice and a top priority in its foreign policy, standing ready to work with China to implement the common perceptions reached by the two countries' top Party leaders, Pham reassured.
Xi welcomed Pham to the SCO Summit, saying the latter's participation in the Summit indicates Viet Nam's high regard for the Viet Nam-China relations and the Southeast Asian nation's active support for multilateral meetings hosted by China.
Xi warmly congratulated the Party, State and people of Viet Nam on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and the National Day.
The two leaders agreed to foster ties between the two Parties and the two countries, enhance strategic exchanges and forge comprehensive cooperation across all fields.
Prime Minister Pham suggested the two sides maintain exchanges and contacts between the two Party leaders, and promote more substantive defense-security cooperation.
Both sides sincerely and frankly exchanged views on maritime issues and agreed to continue serious implementation of the common perceptions of the two countries' top leaders on better controlling disagreements, creating and maintaining an environment of peace, cooperation and development in the region./.
