Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on October 15 successfully ended a five-day official visit to
According to a joint statement, the two sides agreed that this visit strongly boosted the stable, healthy and intensive development of bilateral ties and created positive impacts on peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world at large.
They also agreed to take effective and practical measures to comprehensively and intensively expand friendship and cooperation in all fields.
During the visit, the two sides signed the Cooperation Plan between the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Communist Party of China (2011-15), the five-year Economic-Trade Cooperation Development Plan between the Vietnamese and Chinese Governments for the 2012-16 period, an agreement on education exchange for the 2011-15 period between the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and the Chinese Ministry of Education, a protocol between the Vietnamese and Chinese governments amending the Road Transport Agreement, a protocol on implementing the Road Transport Agreement, and an agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of sea issues between Vietnam and China.-