National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man will pay an official visit to China

According to a statement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 8, at the invitation of Chief Commissioner of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China Zhao Leji, Politburo Member, Chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Tran Thanh Man will pay an official visit to the People's Republic of China, co-chairing the 2nd Meeting of the Cooperation Committee between the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China from October 11 - 15, 2026.

Vietnam - China relations in the past time have generally maintained positive development momentum and achieved many important results. The two sides continue to exchange and contact at high levels in many flexible forms. In particular, the State visit to China by General Secretary and President To Lam (April 14 - 17, 2026) was very successful, with many rich, comprehensive and substantial achievements.

The two sides issued a Joint Statement on continuing to deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, promoting the building of a Vietnam - China Community of Shared Future with higher strategic significance in the new era; signed 32 cooperation documents in the fields of Party, police, judicial, economic, production chain, supply chain, customs cooperation, science and technology, people's livelihood, human resource exploitation, media and local cooperation.

Along with the development momentum of the two countries' relations, the cooperative relationship between the National Assembly of Vietnam and the National People's Congress of China has been constantly strengthened and achieved many practical results. High-level exchanges and contacts between the National Assemblies of the two countries are regularly implemented, notably the official visit to Vietnam by the Chief Commissioner of the National People's Congress of China Zhao Leji (August 31 - September 2, 2025), co-chaired by National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man at the first session of the Cooperation Committee between the National Assembly of Vietnam and the National People's Congress of China. The cooperation agreement between the National Assembly of Vietnam and the National People's Congress of China signed in 2024 is being implemented smoothly. Experience sharing between professional committees, the Friendship Parliamentary Group and local parliaments is strengthened.

Economic - trade, investment and tourism cooperation in general achieved positive results, becoming a bright spot in the two countries' relations. Vietnam has maintained its position as the largest trading partner of China in ASEAN for 10 consecutive years (2024, 2025), and the 4th largest trading partner of China in the world for two consecutive years.

China has been Vietnam's largest trading partner for more than 20 consecutive years. Investment from China into Vietnam continues its growth trend, in the first 7 months of 2026, the total registered capital of Chinese investors reached nearly 3.7 billion USD, an increase of 31.5%. China leads in the number of new investment projects with 849 projects, accounting for about 35% of the total number of new FDI projects granted in Vietnam.

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