Development of China to benefit Vietnam, Xi says

Signed article highlights significance of building community with shared future

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, has called for the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance and vowed to bring new development opportunities for Vietnam and other Asian countries through Chinese modernization.

Xi made the remarks in a signed article published on Tuesday in Vietnam's Nhan Dan Newspaper.

He said his visit to Vietnam feels like visiting relatives and neighbors. Xi had previously visited Vietnam in 2015 and 2017 as general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese president.

"The CPC and the Chinese government always take it as a priority in our neighborhood diplomacy to develop relations with Vietnam," he wrote.

Xi said that no matter how the global environment has changed, the CPC and the Communist Party of Vietnam, as well as the two nations, have worked together to uphold peace and tranquility, pursue development and cooperation, and promote prosperity and progress.

"We sincerely hope that our two nations will always hold dear to the hearts our traditional friendship, always keep in mind our shared visions and missions, advance together along the socialist path, and steadily promote the building of a community with a shared future that carries strategic significance," he wrote.

To build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, Xi stressed the need for the two sides to maintain strategic communication, make good use of their complementary strengths, step up friendly exchanges and properly manage differences.

"Both sides need to act on the common understandings reached by the leaders of our two parties and countries, properly manage differences on maritime issues, and jointly look for mutually acceptable solutions," he wrote.

As peace and development in the region are confronted with fairly grave challenges of instability and uncertainty, Xi said that Asia has come to a critical juncture of development and revitalization.

He expressed China's readiness to better align its development with that of its neighbors, and work together with them to build a community with a shared future and deliver a better life to all.

"Asia is our common home. Neighboring countries cannot be moved away. Helping one's neighbor is helping oneself, and good neighbors wish each other well," he wrote.

According to Xi, China will keep its neighborhood policy consistent and stable, bringing more benefits to its neighbors through Chinese modernization and jointly moving forward Asia's modernization process.

"I believe that a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance will draw more countries to the great cause of building an Asian community with a shared future as well as building a community with a shared future for mankind," he wrote.