At the meeting, Premier Li congratulated General Secretary Lam on his recent election as State President, and expressed his appreciation for the Vietnamese leader’s first state visit to China in his capacity as the country’s top leader.

The visit reflects the high regard and top priority that the Party and State of Vietnam attach to relations with China, he said, expressing confidence that it would inject strong momentum into the development of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership between the two countries and the China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance.

Highlighting the outcomes of talks and important common perceptions reached between General Secretary and President Lam and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the Premier affirmed that China consistently pursues a policy of friendship with Vietnam and considers Vietnam a priority in its neighbourhood diplomacy.

The Chinese Party and Government consistently support the CPV Central Committee, led by General Secretary and President Lam, to successfully achieve the goals set by the 14th National Party Congress and realise the vision of turning Vietnam into a developed, high-income country by 2045, he said.

General Secretary and President Lam expressed his sincere thanks to the Party, State, Government and people of China for their warm, respectful and fraternal reception. He reaffirmed that Vietnam consistently regards the development of neighbourliness, friendship, and comprehensive strategic cooperation with China as an objective requirement and a top strategic choice in its foreign policy.

He stressed that Vietnam wishes and is determined to work with China to comprehensively advance bilateral ties to a new high, with substantive, mutually beneficial cooperation across sectors serving as a key foundation and driving force for stable, healthy and sustainable relations between the two Parties and nations in the new period.

In a friendly, open and trusting atmosphere, the two leaders reviewed the positive outcomes of bilateral cooperation, noting satisfaction with the strong development of relations between the two Parties and countries, particularly in economy, trade, investment, tourism, and railway connectivity, which have seen robust growth and new breakthroughs and created an unprecedentedly vibrant landscape of exchange and cooperation between sectors, levels, and localities of the two countries.

Both sides agreed that the two Parties and countries share broad common interests, while their economies are highly complementary and hold significant untapped potential. They pledged to strengthen solidarity, enhance comprehensive cooperation and mutual support, and further promote political and economic trust, effectively building a Vietnam–China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, and bringing the bilateral relations into a new phase of development based on the “six major orientations”.

General Secretary and President Lam suggested elevating economic, trade, investment and tourism cooperation; promoting more balanced and sustainable trade; and fostering sustainable economic linkages, creating breakthroughs in strategic infrastructure connectivity, with top priority given to railway cooperation and expanded links to Central Asia and Europe.

He also called on China to provide loans, human resources training and technology transfer to help Vietnam master the operation, maintenance and repair of electrified railways, and called for the expansion of smart border gates and cross-border economic cooperation zones.