Prime Minister expects new breakthroughs in Viet Nam-China’s Guangxi cooperation

Pham made that remarks during his reception for Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Liu Ning in Ha Noi on August 28.

The Prime Minister proposed both sides accelerate "hard connectivity" in terms of expressways and high-speed railways, especially the Lang Son-Ha Noi and Mong Cai-Ha Long-Hai Phong routes connecting with Guangxi, while upgrading "soft connectivity" in terms of smart customs and smart border gates.

He called on Guangxi to continue making it easier for Vietnamese goods to enter the region and China as well as third countries and encourage its businesses to increase investment in Viet Nam, especially in such fields like green agriculture, clean energy, and sustainable development.

The Vietnamese leader urged both sides to actively study a cross-border economic cooperation zone model, work together to properly manage the land border, and join hands to hold celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the land border treaty and 15 years since the signing of the three legal documents on land border between the two countries.

Liu Ning, for his part, affirmed his resolve to promote collaboration between the two sides, expand and deepen friendly exchanges with Vietnamese localities, and promote traffic connections by road, rail and sea in accordance with the scale of economic and trade ties.

He vowed to assist Viet Nam in connecting more deeply with the Chinese mainland via Guangxi and to third countries, expressing his hope to enhance linkages with ASEAN countries via Viet Nam.

The two sides should expand the scale and improve the quality of trade and investment ties, improve the efficiency of customs clearance through the "smart border gate" model, as well as promote seaport cooperation, electricity trading, digital economy, and digital connection, he recommended.

He called for stepping up cooperation in border management, crime prevention, cross-border disease transmission prevention, tourism, people-to-people exchange, and education-training, thereby contributing to the China-Viet Nam comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership more intensively.

In 2023, trade value between Viet Nam and Guangxi reached over US$36 billion, an increase of 29.2 percent over the previous year.

Viet Nam has maintained its position as Guangxi's biggest trading partner for 25 years. So far, Guangxi's accumulated investment in Viet Nam hit over US$1.83 billion./.