ACC Secretary-General Met with Vietnamese Ambassador to China

On 19 November 2015, ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) Secretary-General H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping met with the Vietnamese Ambassador to China H.E. Mr. Dang Minh Khoi at ACC. Secretary-General Yang congratulated Ambassador Dang for assuming the post of Vietnamese Ambassador to China, and said that Ambassador Dang paid a visit to ACC soon after the assumption of the new post, which demonstrated the great importance he attached to ASEAN-China relations.

Ambassador Dang highly commended ACC’s contribution to promoting ASEAN-China and Viet Nam-China relations, and expressed his appreciation to ACC for its support to the Vietnamese Embassy to China. Ambassador Dang briefed on the visit of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President Xi Jinping to Viet Nam in November 2015, highlighting that the leaders of both sides had reached important consensus and charted the future course of bilateral relations. It was expected that ASEAN-China and Viet Nam-China relations would reach a higher level and that ACC would further promote Viet Nam-China exchanges in culture, tourism and media, and make more contribution to all-round ASEAN-China cooperation and Viet Nam-China Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership.

Secretary-General Yang said that the traditional friendship forged and nurtured by the elder generation of leaders of the two countries had laid a solid foundation for Viet Nam-China relations. The top leaders of the two countries exchanged visits during the year, instilling strong impetus to bilateral relations. In recent years, ASEAN-China relations had achieved abundant progress and became a flagship of East Asian cooperation. By the end of this year, ASEAN Community would be realized, which was a new starting point for the ASEAN integration process. ACC, working closely with the Vietnamese Embassy, would grasp the opportunities of the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-China dialogue relations and ASEAN-China Educational Exchange Year in 2016, to jointly design and organize commemorative activities and boost people-to-people exchanges in education, culture, media and youth, with a view to constantly moving forward ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership.