According to a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official on
Wednesday, President Hu
Jintao's visit to Vietnam was "successful".
Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC
Central Committee, made the remarks when briefing journalists
accompanying Hu on his three-day official goodwill visit to
Vietnam.
The visit coincides with the 55th anniversary of the
establishment of
Sino-Vietnamese diplomatic ties and it was a "great event" in
the history of relations between the two countries under new
circumstances, Wang said.
Hu began his visit Monday as guest of General-Secretary of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh
and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong.
During the visit, Hu met with Vietnamese leaders and youth group
representatives, and delivered a speech to the National Assembly of
Vietnam.
The two sides signed a series of cooperation documents including
an economic and technical cooperation agreement, and issued a joint
statement.
Summarizing the highlights of the visit, Wang said it
consolidated the bilateral traditional friendship, enhanced mutual
trust and helped raise good-neighborliness and friendship and
overall cooperation between the two countries to a new level.
Second, Wang added, party-to-party exchanges and
people-to-people friendship have been strengthened through the
visit, thus consolidating the political and social basis for
bilateral relations.
Third, he said, it helped create new concepts and expand new
ways for cooperation, injecting new vigor into bilateral economic
and trade cooperation.
And fourth, it helped address concerns properly and push forward
regional cooperation, thus making contributions to peace, stability
and prosperity in the region and the world at large.
The visit is bound to promote all-round friendship and
cooperation between the two countries to higher levels, Wang
said.
Hu is also General Secretary of the Central Committee of
CPC.
(Xinhua News Agency November 3, 2005)