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HANOI – President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China is ready to work with Vietnam to deepen strategic communication and promote the China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance to reach substantial achievements so as to benefit both peoples.

Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when he met with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong on Wednesday, the second day of his state visit to the country.

He said China is willing to enhance communication and coordination with Vietnam to find a long-term solution to maritime issues that is acceptable to both sides, and promote all parties to reach a substantive and effective Code of Conduct in the South China Sea at an early date.

Xi stressed that China and Vietnam should join hands to build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance

He stressed that China and Vietnam should join hands to build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

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To achieve that, the two sides should strengthen political guidance, enhance solidarity and cooperation, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, step up guidance on public opinion and properly manage differences, said the Chinese leader.

Noting that the Vietnam-China ties have never been so comprehensive, profound and friendly as they are today, Vo Van Thuong said developing relations with China has always been the top priority and strategic choice of the party and government of Vietnam.

Vietnam-China ties are solid as rock, immune to estrangement and disruption by external forces, he said.

He arrived in Hanoi on Tuesday on a two-day state visit, his first visit to the Southeast Asian country in six years.

The Chinese leader laid a wreath at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi.

Meeting with PM

While meeting Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh, the Chinese leader said China and Vietnam should sail together on the same ship of socialism.

Both sides should be alert to and oppose any attempts to mess up Asia-Pacific, strengthen coordination and cooperation in international affairs and jointly maintain a favorable external environment, said Xi.

He said that Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, and he jointly announced building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, opening a new chapter in bilateral ties.

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The Chinese president said he believes it will bring greater benefits to the two peoples and make positive contributions to peace, stability and development of the region and the world.

For his part, Pham Minh Chinh said Vietnam-China relations have withstood the test of time and history and will not be affected by any interference provoked by external forces.

Meeting with National Assembly chairman

China and Vietnam, under new circumstances, should move forward on the path of friendship and cooperation from the strategic and long-term perspective of the relationship, President Xi said while meeting the chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue.

The two countries should ensure sound steering of the bilateral relationship, advance practical cooperation and properly managing problems and differences, he said.

The announcement to build the China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance sends a positive message of solidarity, friendship and common development between China and Vietnam as two socialist countries, according to the Chinese leader.

He pointed out that in recent years, the National People's Congress of China and National Assembly of Vietnam have maintained good interactions and steadily enhanced exchanges and cooperation at various levels.

It is hoped that the two legislatures will further deepen exchanges and cooperation, draw upon each other's useful experience in legislation and supervision, do more to forge closer bonds between the two peoples, and contribute to improving the modernized governance systems and capabilities respectively and to cementing the popular foundation for building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, Xi added.

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For his part, Hue said that Xi and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong agreed on the new characterization of the elevated relationship between the two parties and two countries – jointly building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

This takes forward the special friendship of camaraderie plus brotherhood forged by the older-generation leaders, and will steer the relationship in the direction of steady development in the long run and toward a brighter future, Hue added.

China-Vietnam friendship

Xi also said that the foundation of China-Vietnam friendship lies among their two peoples and the future of this friendship will be created by the young people.

Xi made the remarks while meeting with representatives of young Chinese and Vietnamese and people who have contributed to China-Vietnam friendship, noting that the announcement of building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance is a major strategic decision.

Today's China and Vietnam prove the path they have chosen is the right one, he said, adding that the Asia-Pacific is the place which the two countries call home, and is a source of power driving global growth.