Vice Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council Phan Thi Thang (R) and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress Du Liming at the meeting on December 10 (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Vice Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People’sCouncil Phan Thi Thang hosted a reception for Vice Chairman of the StandingCommittee of Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress Du Liming in Ho Chi MinhCity on December 10.
Thang affirmed that the Vietnamese Party, Government and people always attachmuch importance to develop traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperationwith the Chinese Party, Government and People.
Both sides have made concerted efforts to ensure that the comprehensivestrategic cooperative partnership between the two nations develop into a stable andsustainable manner for the benefits of the two peoples, she said.
Thang stressed that Ho Chi Minh City has set up friendship relations with eightChinese localities, including Chongqing city. Besides, the Vietnamese southernhub pays due attention to promoting relations with other provinces and citiesin China through a wide range of cooperative and exchange activities.
Thang informed her guest on activities of the HCM City People’s Council, sayingthat she hopes the two cities will have more practical cooperative programmesin the time ahead, and work together to enhance cultural and tourism exchanges,making contributions to the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
Du, for his part, said that the two cities are working to branch out the sound Vietnam-Chinaties.
Chongqing wants to step up cooperation and friendship between the Ho Chi Minh CityPeople’s Council and the Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress so as to boostfreight transport development, cultural cooperation, and exchange ofagricultural products between the two localities, he added./.
VNA
