Vietnam always attaches importance to promoting exchanges and
cooperation with China’s Guangxi province, contributing to
unceasingly strengthening the time-honoured friendship and comprehensive
cooperation between the two countries.
National Assembly
Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong made this statement while receiving in Hanoi
on September 10 Ma Biao, Governor of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region, who is in Vietnam to attend the third conference of the joint
working committee between Guangxi and Vietnam’s border provinces of Lang
Son, Cao Bang, Ha Giang and Quang Ninh.
Chairman
Trong welcomed the outcomes of the Sept. 9-14 conference during which
the two sides discussed and reached consensus on various forms of
activities to enhance multifaceted cooperation and keep the common
borderline peaceful and stable for development.
He praised the
current visit to Vietnam by Governor Ma Biao, saying that it takes
place at the time when the two countries organise activities to mark the
60th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
He said he believed that
the visit would increase cooperation between Guangxi and Vietnamese
localities, contributing to the common development of the comprehensive
strategic cooperation partnership between the two countries.
The
NA Chairman congratulated achievements recorded by the people in Guangxi
province in particular and the people in the whole country in general in
recent years. From a poor province, Guangxi has developed rapidly,
achieving 113 billion USD in GDP and registering per-capita income of
2,200 USD in 2009.
With developments in the Vietnam-China
comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership, the multifaceted
cooperation between Vietnam and Guangxi saw significant growth.
Trade between the two sides reached nearly 4 billion USD, accounting for
one-fifth of the two countries’ total bilateral trade, he said.
For
his part, Governor Ma Biao affirmed his province always attaches
importance to developing economic cooperation and trade with ASEAN,
including Vietnam, and proposed to accelerate development of the
Nanning-Hanoi economic corridor, build infrastructure, facilitate
exchanges and cooperation between Guangxi and Vietnam’s border
provinces.
He also expressed his wish to further enhance
exchanges between the Guangxi People’s Congress and the Vietnamese
National Assembly./.
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