National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man’s visit carries profound significance in implementing the foreign policy set out at the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Politburo Resolution 06 issued on May 19, 2026, on implementing the foreign policy of the 14th National Congress, Politburo Resolution 59 issued on January 24, 2025, on international integration in the new situation, and Politburo Resolution 23 issued on August 2, 2026, on affairs concerning overseas Vietnamese.
The visit will help deepen relations with China, consolidate a peaceful environment and leverage favourable conditions to successfully implement the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress and achieve national development goals.
The visit will also help further strengthen, promote and translate into concrete action the high-level common perceptions and important outcomes achieved during General Secretary and President To Lam’s visit to China in April 2026 and Chinese General Secretary and President Xi Jinping’s visit to Viet Nam in April 2025.
On this basis, the visit will contribute to promoting comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties and countries across all spheres in line with six major orientations: solidifying political trust; deepening defence and security cooperation; expanding substantive cooperation and enhancing its efficacy, particularly by capitalising on economic opportunities and achieving tangible progress in trade, investment and tourism to contribute to growth targets; strengthening coordination and cooperation at multilateral forums; promoting friendly exchanges and building a sound social foundation for bilateral relations; and effectively managing differences to preserve regional peace and stability.
Relations between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Chinese National People’s Congress form an integral pillar of the overall Viet Nam–China ties. In recent years, alongside the advancement of the broader partnership, cooperation between the two legislative bodies has steadily deepened, yielding numerous tangible outcomes.
High-level exchanges and contacts between the two legislatures have taken place regularly. The cooperation agreement signed by the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Chinese National People’s Congress in 2024 has been effectively implemented. The sharing of experience among specialised committees, friendship parliamentary groups and local-level legislatures has also been intensified.
Through pivotal and substantive cooperation mechanisms between the two nations’ legislative bodies, parliamentary diplomacy has helped translate high-level agreements into legislation, policies and tangible benefits.
As close neighbouring countries, Viet Nam and China have consistently nurtured good relations, drawing on cultural similarities and profound bonds that have endured the test of time.
The golden chapters of friendship and cooperation written over the past 76 years provide a solid foundation for the increasingly robust and effective advancement of bilateral ties, making them a source of strength that will help Viet Nam and China move confidently into a new stage of development.
Political trust between the two countries continues to deepen, underscored by the establishment of new mechanisms. Defence and security cooperation is becoming more substantive. Economic and trade cooperation, investment, tourism and infrastructure connectivity are developing strongly, with new breakthroughs, particularly in railway links.
China is Viet Nam’s largest trading partner, while Viet Nam is China’s largest trading partner within ASEAN and its fourth-largest trading partner globally among individual nations. Local-level cooperation and people-to-people exchanges are also flourishing.
Against this backdrop, National Assembly President Tran Thanh Man’s visit to China marks a milestone in efforts to nurture and advance the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and promote the building of a Viet Nam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance to become increasingly substantive, stable and sustainable.
The visit will deepen cooperation between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Chinese National People’s Congress, creating opportunities for both sides to exchange views in a timely manner on major national development orientations, strengthen political trust, share experience in legislation, oversight and decision-making on important national issues, and develop institutions and policies to accelerate strategic connectivity between both nations.
The high priority attached to Viet Nam-China relations by the senior leaders of the two Parties and countries, together with their unwavering determination and sustained efforts to foster the fine tradition of friendship and cooperation, continues to inspire younger generations to follow in their predecessors’ footsteps and jointly write new chapters in bilateral relations, marked by fresh achievements.
