BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing is ready to work with Hanoi to build a community with a shared future of strategic significance, Chinas official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
The remark came in a congratulatory message by Xi to Vietnams ruling Communist Party chief To Lam and President Luong Cuong to mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Chinas concept of building a community with a shared future is extended to countries with which it desires to build a long-term relationship based on strong alignment of goals, interests and even ideology. Describing this relationship to be of strategic significance is an emphasis on the value that China ascribes to its ties with Vietnam.
Xi said that in the 75 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the countries had struggled side by side and supported each other during the years of striving for national independence and peoples liberation, describing the nations as comrades and brothers, according to Xinhua.