The top leaders of Vietnam and China agreed to maintain regular exchanges, and orient further developments of relations between the two countries in the spirit of neighborliness, friendship, comradeship and partnership.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Chinese Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping exchanged letters of Lunar New Year greetings on Tuesday.

In the letters, they requested Vietnamese and Chinese ministries, sectors, and localities to seriously implement the nations’ high-level common perceptions; bolster practical economic, trade, and investment cooperation; diversely promote people-to-people exchange; and tightly collaborate in disease prevention and control.

The leaders also ordered good control and tackling of differences between the sides based on peaceful negotiations in line with international law, helping develop the Vietnam-China relations of neighborliness, friendship and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in a healthy and sustainable manner, serving fundamental and long-term interests of the two parties, countries and peoples, for peace, stability, cooperation and prosperity in the region and the world over.

They wished Vietnamese and Chinese parties, states, and peoples a peaceful, happy, and successful New Year of the Tiger.

Source: VOV5