Delegates attending the Meeting at Cao Bang live point

The Spring Meeting has become an annual practice in order to further tighten the good traditional friendship and cooperation as well as to enrich the content of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two Parties, States, contributing to peace, stability and development of the region and localities. As the year 2021 is of great significance for both Vietnam and China, and for the contents of cooperation among the 5 provinces/regions to be implemented comprehensively, synchronously, in depth, substantively and effectively, Cao Bang proposed a number of contents to promote cooperation in 2021 as follows: 5 provinces/regions continue to maintain the good implementation of the foreign policy of the two Parties, States; constantly promote friendly exchanges and comprehensive cooperation in all fields, further tighten the friendship between two side’s provinces/regions and border localities, contributing to promoting the Vietnam - China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Mr. Lu xinshe, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Chairman of the People's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region suggested that in the up-coming time, the parties should continue to strengthen cooperation in health and effective disease prevention; speed up the connection of transport infrastructure; strengthen border economic cooperation and expand border trade zones; continue to seek and promote new and effective economic development models; build and upgrade pairs of border gates, especially the ones in key economic zones; promote people-to-people exchanges and develop tourism of the two sides.

Speaking at the Meeting, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam Nguyen Minh Vu highly appreciated the initiative to organize the program online to adapt to the current Covid-19 situation. He emphasized that the meeting was the highest-level dialogue forum in the exchange and cooperation relations between the localities of Vietnam and China. It was also an opportunity for key leaders of the provinces/regions to exchange and strengthen their political trust, thereby promoting an important role in determining cooperation directions as well as directing the settlement of difficulties and obstacles in cooperation between the two countries.

Mr. Lai Xuan Mon, Member of the Central Committee of the Party, Secretary of the Cao Bang Provincial Party Committee speaks at the Meeting

Cao Bang province is highly appreciated for its innovative organization of this year’s online meeting with the theme of "Strengthening friendship, proactively adapting, enhancing cooperation, promoting development" in the situation of responding to and preventing the Covid-19 epidemic and the progress and achievements of the 2020 Spring Meeting in Liuzhou, China. It is agreed that 5 provinces/regions with traditional friendship, similar culture and close development path will always be good neighbors. In 2021, the parties will actively overcome difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to continue implementing the signed cooperation, while enhancing the initiative and creativity of localities in researching, proposing and implementing new common perceptions in the cooperation agreement. It is necessary to promote the joint coordination role of the Spring Meeting and the Joint Working Committee Conference between four border provinces of Vietnam and Guangxi (China); The parties need to focus on promoting cooperation in the fields of people-to-people exchange and connection of the provinces/regions; well implementing the minutes of talks, memorandums of understanding and cooperation agreements; coordinating to do well in epidemic prevention and control; implementing economic and trade cooperation, contributing to the realization of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP); effectively implementing three legal documents on Vietnam – China land border and related agreements. In the complicated situation of the Covid-19, the leaders of the provinces/region need to periodically or not periodically inform each other about the epidemic situation; jointly study and develop corresponding measures to facilitate post-covid recovery of trade and investment, to overcome supply chain disruption, and to encourage businesses of all parties to contact and connect for development.

After the 2021 Spring Meeting, the People's Committee of Cao Bang province chaired the 12th conference of the Joint Working Committee online between the 4 provinces of Cao Bang, Lang Son, Ha Giang, Quang Ninh (Vietnam) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China).

Mr. Le Hai Hoa, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Cao Bang province speaks at the Conference of the Joint Working Committee

The conference reviewed the achieved results as well as limitations in implementing the content of the signed talks, memorandums, and cooperation agreements; agreed to concretize the key contents of cooperation in the upcoming time.

In the spirit of solidarity and friendship, the leaders of the provincial and regional governments discussed the contents, programs and plans to realize the agreed contents of cooperation. The two sides continue to cooperate in opening and upgrading border gates; flexibly implement solutions to promote two-way border trade; continue to support businesses of the two sides to implement cooperation in agriculture, forestry and fishery; continue to strengthen cooperation and exchange of experiences in crime prevention, immigration management, border management and cybersecurity, and border law enforcement.