Sharing the responsibility to promote good Vietnam-China relations

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hopes that the Vietnamese community in China will continue to promote the spirit of mutual love, uphold national pride, solidarity, and help each other overcome difficulties.

Cùng chung trách nhiệm thúc đẩy quan hệ tốt đẹp Việt Nam-Trung Quốc

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy and representatives of the Vietnamese community in China. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

On June 25, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a warm and friendly meeting with officials and staff of the Embassy and overseas Vietnamese in China right after arriving in Beijing, starting his official visit to China and attending the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Thủ tướng và Đoàn công tác dâng hoa tại tượng đài Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh tại khuôn viên Đại sứ quán Việt Nam

The Prime Minister and the delegation laid flowers at the statue of President Ho Chi Minh in the grounds of the Vietnamese Embassy. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

Always remember that I am Vietnamese

At the meeting, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai reported to the Prime Minister on the Embassy's activities in advising the Party and State, implementing economic and cultural diplomacy tasks, especially removing difficulties and obstacles, promoting Vietnam-China trade to achieve many positive results, and working with overseas Vietnamese, contributing to connecting and supporting people in difficult times.

Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai reports to the Prime Minister on the Embassy's recent activities. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

At the meeting, on behalf of Vietnamese expatriates in China, Ms. To Truong Thi Hong Hoai, who married a Chinese man and has lived here for 25 years, expressed that she always misses her homeland and is happy to see the country developing more and more, and always feels proud to be Vietnamese.

Overseas Vietnamese To Truong Thi Hong Hoai. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

Ms. Hoai thanks the Embassy for always creating conditions and helping people, giving them the opportunity to meet and participate in activities on holidays and Tet to ease their homesickness.

"Although we are always far away from our homeland, we always remember that we are Vietnamese, always looking towards the Fatherland, always being patriotic overseas Vietnamese, promoting the quintessence of Vietnam to international friends in general, and Chinese friends in particular," said Ms. Hoai.

Le Duc Anh, a graduate student at Beijing University of Technology, said that with 10,000 international students, Vietnam is among the 15 countries with the largest number of international students in China.

The students are very proud to witness the country's development. "We hope that the Party, State and Government will have mechanisms and policies to create more favorable conditions for students to contribute their efforts to the country, continue to have practical activities towards the Fatherland, and be a bridge for the development of friendship and people-to-people exchange between the two countries," Duc Anh emphasized.

Overseas Vietnamese expressed their joy at the great achievements the country has made in recent times, believing that the visit will contribute to consolidating and strengthening the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, while promoting the country's image and attracting more investment to Vietnam.

On this occasion, overseas Vietnamese made a number of proposals and recommendations to continue developing the Vietnamese community in China, promoting the country's image, helping overseas Vietnamese to best develop their abilities, and contribute more to the country and to the Vietnam-China relationship.

Continue to deepen Vietnam-China relations

After listening to the Ambassador's report and the opinions shared by overseas Vietnamese, the Prime Minister acknowledged and highly appreciated the Embassy's careful preparation for the working trip - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's first official visit to China as Prime Minister and also the first visit to China by a Vietnamese Prime Minister in 7 years.

The Prime Minister affirmed that China is a neighboring country sharing a border with Vietnam, "mountains connected to mountains, rivers connected to rivers". The consistent policy of our Party and State is to always attach importance to maintaining and developing friendly and cooperative relations with the Party, State and people of China.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his emotion at the sentiment, enthusiasm, responsibility and desire to contribute of overseas Vietnamese to their homeland and country.

Recalling General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's visit to China in November 2022, the Prime Minister said that the visit was called a "historic visit" by China. During this visit, the two sides reviewed the bilateral relationship in the past and oriented the strategic direction of the relationship in the coming time. Notably, after the visit, the Vietnam-China relationship has clearly developed. The Vietnam-China Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership is maintaining its development trend and achieving many positive results. Vietnam-China political trust has been strengthened; economic, trade and investment cooperation has maintained growth.

The Prime Minister emphasized that this visit aims to continue to concretize and deepen the traditional relationship between the two countries.

The Prime Minister recalled the "unforgettable" years of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and the largest-ever free vaccination campaign. With the spirit of "the most effective vaccine is the one that is injected earliest", Vietnam has purchased the most vaccines from China. To buy 40 million doses of vaccine from China in about 10 days, the Prime Minister wrote a letter to General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.

To date, China has provided Vietnam with more than 50 million doses of vaccine, including 7.3 million non-refundable aid doses and 45 million commercial doses, especially nearly 40 million doses in a very short time before October 10, 2021.

Recalling the difficulties during the Covid-19 period, the Prime Minister expressed his sympathy for the difficulties and losses of overseas Vietnamese during the pandemic, and expressed his joy and appreciation for their efforts in recent times to unite, promote the tradition of "mutual love", and help each other overcome difficulties during the pandemic.

In particular, with the spirit of "drinking water, remembering its source", always looking back to the origin and homeland, people have actively contributed to the country, especially in disease prevention and socio-economic recovery and development. These are the traditional and precious beauty of our Vietnamese people no matter where they are in the world.


People are proud to see the country develop and hope to have the opportunity to contribute to the country. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

People are proud to see the country develop and hope to have the opportunity to contribute to the country. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

The Prime Minister emphasized that our Party and State always consider the Vietnamese community abroad, including the Vietnamese community in China, an inseparable part of the great national unity bloc, and one of the driving forces and sources of strength for the country's development.

"Today's achievements in national development all have important contributions from the community of more than 5.3 million Vietnamese people in more than 130 countries around the world, including the community in China," said the Prime Minister.

In the coming time, the Prime Minister emphasized that there will be many difficulties and challenges due to the impact of the rapidly changing, complex and unpredictable world situation. Vietnam is a developing country with a transitioning economy, and there are still many internal economic problems that need to be solved.

The Prime Minister hopes that the Vietnamese community in China will continue to promote the spirit of mutual love and affection, uphold national pride, solidarity, and help each other overcome difficulties; strive to rise up, actively integrate, comply with the law, and contribute to the development of the host country; increasingly play an important role as a bridge for the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China. At the same time, always turn towards the homeland and the country, proactively making more practical and effective contributions to the cause of national construction and development.

Will propose China to create conditions for overseas Vietnamese

The Prime Minister said that the National Assembly recently passed the Law on Exit and Entry of Vietnamese Citizens and the Law on Entry, Exit, Transit and Residence of Foreigners in Vietnam; and the Law on Citizen Identification.

The Party and State always try to determine the legal status of Vietnamese people abroad so that they can live, study and work legally and conveniently. During this visit, the Prime Minister will ask the Chinese side to continue creating favorable conditions for the Vietnamese community to live, study, work, reside and actively integrate into the host society.

Delegates attending the meeting. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)

Regarding some of the people's thoughts, wishes and proposals, the Prime Minister shared, acknowledged and will assign relevant ministries, branches and agencies to focus on synthesizing, researching and soon having appropriate solutions in a timely and thorough spirit.

The Prime Minister highly appreciated and commended the staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in China for their great efforts in overcoming difficulties, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, and successfully completing the tasks assigned by the Party, State and Government.

In the coming time, the Prime Minister requested the Embassy to continue to perform well its foreign affairs tasks, carefully study and grasp the local situation, be sensitive, flexible, creative, grasp information and opportunities to have timely initiatives, recommendations, and advice for the Party, State and Government in continuing to promote the stable and sustainable development of Vietnam - China relations.

The Prime Minister noted the need to promote the spirit and strength of solidarity of the 42,000-strong Vietnamese community in China and to refer to and learn from China's good experiences in socio-economic development.

At the same time, the Embassy continues to do well in community work and citizen protection in the spirit of Resolution 36 of the Politburo and Conclusion No. 12-KL/TW of the Politburo on work for overseas Vietnamese in the new situation.