Chinese vice president vows to boost ties with Vietnam

Source: Xinhua | 05-11-2009 19:42

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping vowed to push forward friendly ties with Vietnam on Monday, and pledged joint efforts with the country to counter the global slump.

Xi made the pledge in his meeting with a delegation from the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), led by Ha Thi Khiet, member of the Secretariat and chief of the Commission for Mass Organization of the CPV Central Committee.

Xi said the two countries had stepped up strategic cooperative partnership under the guidance of the 16-word principle of "long-term stability, facing the future, good-neighborliness and friendship, and all-round cooperation".

The two ruling parties had enhanced exchanges of theories and experience in the building of socialism, which had injected new vitality to bilateral party-to-party relations, he added.