On December 24, CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin met with Nguyen Sinh Hung, President of National Assembly of Vietnam, who is on an official visit to Beijing.  Mr. Cao Weizhou, Vice Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of National People’s Congress of China, Madame Lin Yi, Vice President of CPAFFC, and Mr. Zhang Dewei, Vice President of China-Vietnam Friendship Association (CVFA) and former Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam, were present at the meeting.

President Nguyen sang a high praise of the remarkable contribution made by CPAFFC and CVFA in carrying forward the “Comrade and Brother” friendship between Vietnam and China.  He said that the development of Vietnam-China relations is generally satisfactory despite ups and downs in past decades.  During the visit to Vietnam by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President, leaders of the two countries reviewed the bilateral relations from strategic perspective and reached agreements on further advancing the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.  Vietnam will always remember the efforts in promoting bilateral relationship made by former Chinese state leaders such as Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai, President Li Xiannian, and Chinese Ambassadors to Vietnam.  Mr. Nguyen spoke highly of the achievements made through visits to Vietnam by CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin this year and hoped that the friendship organizations in Vietnam and China join efforts in ensuring the Vietnam-China friendship last forever. 

President Li expressed gratitude for Mr. Nguyen’s meeting and said that the people-to-people exchanges between China and Vietnam are becoming more active thanks to the smooth development of the official bilateral relations.  This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam and the 125th anniversary of the birth of Chairman Ho Chi Minh.  I visited Vietnam three times this year and set up good cooperation with Mr. Vu Xuan Hong, Chairman of Vietnam union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) and people from other circles.  CPAFFC and VUFO successfully held the dialogue of friendship delegates during President Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam and the photo exhibition of Ho Chi Minh and China-Vietnam relations during Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli’s visit to Vietnam.  The traditional friendship between China and Vietnam was founded and nurtured by former state leaders and our generation feels it important to carry it forward.  CPAFFC and CVFA will strengthen its cooperation with Vietnam counterparts for accelerating the people-to-people exchanges to a new height.