Beijing, September 21st—Sun Haiyan, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met here today with a delegation of provincial- and ministerial-level officials of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Huynh Quoc Viet, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ca Mau Provincial Party Committee. 

Sun welcomed the delegation's visit to China. She said that in recent years, General Secretary Xi Jinping and General Secretary To Lam have maintained close strategic communication, personally making arrangements and jointly charting a new blueprint for the development of China-Vietnam relations. China stands ready to work with Vietnam, taking the important consensus of the top leaders of the two Parties and the two countries as the fundamental guide, to strengthen exchanges of experience on party governance and state administration, advance high-quality practical cooperation across all fields, and foster a more positive and favorable atmosphere for accelerating the building of a community with a shared future that carries strategic significance at a higher level. 

Huynh Quoc Viet said that Vietnam speaks highly of the tremendous achievements of Chinese modernization, and is ready to work with China to fully implement the important consensus of the top leaders of the two Parties and the two countries, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning in party building as well as publicity, ideology and culture, and deepen practical cooperation at the sub-national level, so as to further consolidate the political and public foundations of bilateral relations and make positive contributions to jointly building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future.