The top legislator was accompanied by NA Vice Chairman Huynh Ngoc Son and members of the Party Central Committee and the NA’s Standing Committee, among others. The delegation will come to Beijing to implement an official and friendly visit to People's Republic of China from December 23-27, 2015.During his five-day stay in China, the NA Chairman is scheduled to held talks and meetings with Chinese Party and State leaders. He will also visit a number of historical relic sites in the country which witnessed traditional friendship between the two Parties, States and peoples. This is the first trip to China by a Vietnamese top legislator since 2007, and also the first made by Nguyen Sinh Hung in capacity of Chairman of the 13th National Assembly.
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung
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Through the visit, Vietnam affirms to persistently pursue a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralisation and diversification, and treasure and develop a good and substantial relationship with China on the principle of mutual respect and win-win benefit.
The visit aims to protect Vietnam’s legitimate interests in the East Sea based on international law and control divergences and together maintain peace and stability in the East Sea for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and in the world.
Vietnam and China established diplomatic ties in 1950 and since then the bilateral relations have thrived across the fields. In 2014, two-way trade between Vietnam and China reached 58.5 billion USD, up 16 percent against the previous year. Vietnam was the second biggest trade partner of China in ASEAN, while China was the ninth largest foreign investor in Vietnam with a total registered capital of 7.9 billion USD.
Vietnam – China relationship has developed strongly in all fields since the two countries normalised its ties in 1991. The two countries agreed to build comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership on the principle of the 16-word motto and the four-good spirit. In 2015, the two countries organised many activities to mark the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic ties. The trade and economic cooperation has developed quickly and the two-way trade reached 58 billion USD in 2014 and 54.8 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2015.
Taking place in the context that the two countries held many activities to commemorate 65 years of diplomatic relations, the program visit, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and high-level delegation to the National Assembly of Vietnam will have talks and contacts with the leaders of the comrades of Party and Government of China.
The delegation will visit a number of historic sites associated with the traditional friendship, sticking between the two Parties and the States and people of Vietnam and China.
