Speaking at the meeting, the Chinese official said he hopes the two countries will continue to strengthen strategic development and connection and deepen practical cooperation in various fields, thus strongly promoting partnership and comprehensive strategic cooperation in the new era.
He also underscored the need for the localities to build a mechanism to jointly share information related to goods and means of transport across borders, enhance cooperation in border management, prevent and combatsmuggling and cross-border crimes, improve the capacity of bilateral border management, and build border fences.
For his part, Secretary of the Party Committee of Lang Son Province Nguyen Quoc Doan affirmed that theprovince will thoroughly consider related issues and proposals put forward in order to promote infrastructure connectivity, and accelerate the development of an express cross-border route for goods transportation between Vietnam and China and the construction of a smart border gate.
He also suggested strengthening the exchange of delegations and specific and practical cooperation activities between the Party committees and authorities of the two localities; focusing attention on implementing the agreements signed at the spring meeting between secretaries of the Party committees of Vietnamese and Chinese localities as well as the 14th Conference of the Joint Working Committee between four Vietnamese border provinces and Guangxi; and stepping up import-export activities at border crossings.
At the meeting, the two sides positively evaluated the close high-level relationship between the two Parties and States, as well as between Lang Son and Guangxi, which has been increasingly strengthened and nurtured. They also discussed measures to promote their potentials and strengths and step up cross-border trade.
