Neighborhood visits to share friendship fruits

Top leader Xi Jinping's current two-nation tour to Southeast Asia, which takes him to Vietnam and Singapore, sends a strong message that China attaches great importance to developing good relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors.

Xi's visit to Vietnam, his first as president of China and top Party leader, marks Beijing's latest diplomatic efforts to inject new vitality into healthy and stable ties with Hanoi. As the two countries share similar political systems and development paths, Xi's talks with Vietnamese leaders have strengthened their commitment to forging "comradely and brotherly" friendship.

China is also looking to link its global economic cooperation initiatives with Vietnam's own development strategy, so as to bring more benefits to the two peoples. The cooperation agreements inked by the two sides cover such areas as political interaction, infrastructure, trade, investment, and people-to-people exchanges.