Party General Secretary, President Tô Lâm meets with Chinese friendship scholars. VNA/VNS Photo Trí Dũng

HÀ NỘI — Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm on Sunday afternoon met with representatives from Chinese friendship scholars, families of revolutionary generals, experts and advisors who had assisted Việt Nam during its resistance wars, as well as officials and staff involved in preserving historical sites related to the Vietnamese revolution.

The meeting also included prominent Chinese intellectuals, scholars, researchers on Việt Nam, former Chinese ambassadors to Việt Nam and Chinese youth representatives.

This was part of the top leader’s State visit to China while he was in in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.

The Chinese delegates shared emotional memories of President Hồ Chí Minh during his time in China, recalling the days spent alongside Vietnamese war veterans and discussed efforts to preserve, maintain and promote Việt Nam’s revolutionary historical sites in China.

They affirmed their commitment to continuing the deep friendship between Việt Nam and China and to steadfastly pursuing the shared ideals and mutual trust in each country’s development and growth.

General Secretary and President Tô Lâm expressed his pleasure at meeting representatives from various segments of the Chinese populace who have been and will continue to promote the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between Việt Nam and China.

He expressed his emotions, noting that the first stop of the high-level Vietnamese delegation on this visit to China was Guangzhou, the place where President Hồ Chí Minh first arrived exactly 100 years ago after 13 years of traveling abroad to seek a way to save the nation.

In Guangzhou, President Hồ Chí Minh in the past prepared for the founding of the Communist Party of Việt Nam, the Việt Nam Revolutionary Youth League and trained many of the Communist Party of Việt Nam's key leaders.

Guangzhou was also where the leader actively participated in both the Vietnamese and Chinese revolutionary movements, as well as the International Communist movement.

General Secretary and President Tô Lâm affirmed that the Party, State and people of Việt Nam always cherish and are grateful for the valuable support and assistance from the Chinese Party, State and people for the Vietnamese people's revolutionary cause in the past, as well as in the current development and construction of the country.

He expressed his belief that each delegate will continue to foster the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and shared future community between Việt Nam and China.

The meeting was co-organised by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations, and the Vietnamese Consulate General in Guangzhou.

General Secretary and President Tô Lâm, his wife and the high-ranking delegation of Việt Nam arrived in Beijing on Sunday evening, continuing their state visit to China from August 18-20. — VNS