On the afternoon?of August 31, 2025, President Xi Jinping met at the Tianjin Guest House with?Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is in China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit 2025.
President Xi noted that during his state visit to Viet Nam in April, the two sides reached important consensus on advancing the building?of the China–Viet Nam community with a shared future under the new circumstances. Government departments and local authorities on both sides need to accelerate the implementation so that the comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries will deliver more tangible outcomes. In the context of the accelerating global transformation unseen in a century and the fluid and volatile international situation, China and Viet Nam need to firm up confidence in their paths and systems, step?up solidarity and cooperation, and steer the ship of the community with a shared future steadily forward in the right direction.
President Xi extended congratulations on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and underscored China's support for Viet Nam in successfully convening the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam. He expressed China's readiness to deepen exchanges on party and state governance with Viet Nam, maintain high-level exchanges, and take well-coordinated steps to advance bilateral strategic cooperation. The two sides need to actively promote cooperation in connectivity, digital economy, and artificial intelligence, and enhance experience sharing in the development of free trade zones and special economic zones, so as to facilitate their respective modernization drive. Continued efforts should be made to ensure the success of the commemorative activities marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the Vietnamese youth's "red study tours" to China, and develop more programs to bring the two peoples closer together. It is important for the two sides to strengthen multilateral cooperation and uphold the shared interests of the Global South.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh conveyed the cordial greetings of General Secretary To Lam and President Luong Cuong to General Secretary and President Xi Jinping, and noted that the frequent high-level exchanges between the two parties and the two countries reflect their profound friendship featuring "camaraderie plus brotherhood." Viet Nam and China share common strategic interests and are fellow companions in the journey of socialism. Viet Nam sees growing its relations with China as a strategic choice and top priority in its foreign policy. Viet Nam is ready to foster greater strategic synergy with China, expand trade and investment, enhance connectivity, deepen people-to-people exchanges, stand united and look out for each other with a view to jointly advancing modernization, which serves the interests of both countries and contributes to global peace and stability. Viet Nam is heartened to see China's significant development achievements and its important contributions to the world economy. The three major global initiatives proposed by President Xi have steered global governance and offered China's wisdom and proposals to address common challenges. The upcoming SCO Summit is unprecedented in scale. Viet Nam will uphold the "Shanghai Spirit" and work with China to contribute to the organization's greater development.
Cai Qi, Wang Yi, and Chen Min'er, among others, were present at the meeting.
