Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit Vietnam this week
Chinese Premier Li Qiang will pay an official visit to Vietnam from October 12-14, becoming the first Chinese premier to do so in 11 years.
The visit will be made at the invitation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an announcement late Tuesday.
This will be Li’s first Vietnam trip since he took office in March 2023.
Vietnam will be the second and last leg of Li’s upcoming overseas trip. Before Vietnam, he will travel to Laos to attend the 27th China-ASEAN Summit, the 27th ASEAN Plus Three Summit and the 19th East Asia Summit to be held in Vientiane from October 9 to 12, and pay an official visit to Laos, according to China’s foreign ministry.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang (right) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shake hands before their talks in Dalian city, China’s Liaoning province, June 24, 2024. Photo courtesy of the Vietnamese government’s news portal.
China looks forward to working with ASEAN and other regional countries to build consensus, deepen mutual trust, strengthen cooperation, and inject new impetus into peace, stability, development and prosperity in the region and the world at large, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference on Tuesday.
Li Keqiang was the last Chinese premier to visit Vietnam in October 2013, at the invitation of then-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
PM Chinh had a working visit to China in June and met his Chinese counterpart there.
China is Vietnam’s largest trade partner and import market, providing Vietnam with input materials and intermediate goods for manufacturing.
On the other hand, Vietnam is China’s biggest trade partner in ASEAN and fifth-largest worldwide.
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