PM Pham Minh Chinh arrives in Beijing on June 25 afternoon, starting an official visit to China (Photo: VNA)

The Vietnamese Government leader was met at Beijing International Airport by officials of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai, and representatives of the Vietnamese community in China.  

This is the first official visit by PM Chinh and the first by a Vietnamese PM to China after seven years. It is also the first time key leaders of the two countries directly meet after China completed the State leadership for the new tenure.

During his stay, PM Chinh will held talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and have meetings with Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping, and Chairman of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee Zhao Leji.

He will attend important meetings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and have bilateral meetings with WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwa and leaders of some countries and international organisations.

On this occasion, the PM will also join a Vietnam - China business forum.

Visiting the Vietnamese Embassy and meeting overseas Vietnamese, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh briefed them on Vietnam's socio-economic development, expressed his hope that the Vietnamese Embassy would fulfil their assigned tasks, pay more attention to the overseas Vietnamese affairs, and promote exchanges between Vietnamese and Chinese people.

The Prime Minister said his visit to China aims to concretize the agreements that the two countries have reached and at the same time further strengthen the friendship and the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries. The Vietnamese Party, State, and people treasure its friendly neighborliness and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with the Chinese Party, State, and people on the basis of maintaining a foreign policy of peace, independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralization. 

The Prime Minister expressed his hope that overseas Vietnamese in China would promote unity and serve as a bridge for bilateral friendship and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.