From February 4 to 5, 2024, Assistant Foreign Minister Nong Rong and Vietnamese Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu held the Secretary-General Meeting of the China-Viet Nam Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and Deputy Head of the Commission for External Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Ngo Le Van in Hanoi.

Nong Rong said that last year, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping paid a historic visit to Viet Nam and jointly announced with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong the building of a China-Viet Nam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, charting the course for deepening China-Viet Nam comprehensive strategic cooperation in the years ahead. Departments and localities of the two countries have promptly implemented the outcomes of the visit and made positive progress.

Nong Rong elaborated the guiding principles of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs, stressing that the two sides should give full play to the coordinating role of the Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, strengthen high-level exchanges, deepen cooperation in Belt and Road cooperation, especially in connectivity, digital economy, green development and other fields, build a China-Viet Nam friendship publicity system project, properly handle maritime differences, accelerate maritime cooperation, and deliver on the China-Viet Nam community with a shared future at an early date.

Viet Nam extended congratulations on the convening of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs, said that it will cooperate with China within the framework of the three global initiatives and is ready to work with China to fully implement the outcomes of General Secretary and President Xi Jinping's visit to Viet Nam and push for positive progress in the building of the Viet Nam-China community with a shared future. Viet Nam reiterated its firm commitment to the one-China policy, firm opposition to any form of "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and support for China's cause of reunification. Viet Nam is ready to work with China to manage maritime differences through friendly consultation, advance maritime cooperation and safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea.

Chinese Ambassador to Viet Nam Xiong Bo and Chinese Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Wei Huaxiang attended relevant events.