On December 2, 2023 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi met with Member of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) Central Committee Secretariat and Head of the CPV Central Committee's Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung in Hanoi.

Wang Yi congratulated Le Hoai Trung on assuming his post as Member of the CPV Central Committee Secretariat. Wang Yi said that sharing the same ideals and a shared future are the most salient features of China-Viet Nam relations, and the "comradely and brotherly" friendship between China and Viet Nam is the most vivid illustration of China-Viet Nam relations. The top leaders of the two parties have established solid mutual trust and deep friendship, which is the most important political safeguard for the steady development of relations between the two countries. China regards Viet Nam as a priority in its neighborhood diplomacy, and stands ready to work with Viet Nam to follow through on the high-level common understandings, make good preparations for the important political agenda between the two countries, and join hands in advancing the building of a China-Viet Nam community with a shared future. He expressed the belief that under the strategic guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping and General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the relations between the two parties and the two countries will continuously move ahead and open up brighter prospects, and cooperation in various fields will usher in a new climax, which will boost respective efforts to accelerate development and revitalization and will make new contributions to the vitality of the socialist cause.

Le Hoai Trung said that Viet Nam, the CPV and the Vietnamese people have deep feelings toward China, and developing Viet Nam-China relations is a strategic choice and top priority of Viet Nam's foreign policy. The Vietnamese side is satisfied with the sound and positive development momentum of bilateral relations. Viet Nam and China are both socialist countries at the crucial stage of national development. Facing the complex and changing world situations, the Vietnamese side looks forward to closer high-level exchanges between the two sides to bring bilateral relations to a new stage of more in-depth, more solid, more comprehensive and more effective development, so as to lay a more sound and solid foundation for the future of Viet Nam-China relations.