Overview of the meeting between Secretary Hau A Lenh and Secretary Wang Ning.
Attending the meeting were both-side officials: Mr. Nguyen Minh Vu, Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam; members of the Standing Board of the Tuyen Quang Provincial Party Committee; and leaders of relevant departments and agencies from both Yunnan and Tuyen Quang provinces.
Party Secretary Hau A Lenh during the bilateral meeting with Yunnan Party Secretary Wang Ning.
Speaking at the meeting, Secretary Hau A Lenh expressed his pleasure at meeting and exchanging views with Secretary Wang Ning. He emphasized that, following the merger of Tuyen Quang and Ha Giang, the newly established province now possesses great potential for cooperation with Yunnan, particularly in border economy, trade, labor, agriculture, and people-to-people exchanges. With a 277-kilometer border shared with Yunnan and Guangxi, Tuyen Quang considers cooperation with Chinese localities a strategic direction to promote border economic development, ensure national defense and security, and strengthen the friendship between the peoples of the two countries.
Secretary Wang Ning of Yunnan presents a gift to Secretary Hau A Lenh of Tuyen Quang.
Secretary Hau A Lenh noted that cooperation between the two sides has recently achieved significant results: Total import-export turnover through the border gates reached USD 797 million in the first nine months of 2025, up nearly 88% year-on-year; more than 17,000 Tuyen Quang workers are currently employed stably in Yunnan; and multiple cooperation projects in agriculture, healthcare, and education have been effectively implemented.
Secretary Hau A Lenh of Tuyen Quang presents a gift to Secretary Wang Ning of Yunnan.
To further deepen bilateral relations, Secretary Hau A Lenh proposed several key areas of cooperation: Continuing to implement the common understanding reached by the top leaders of the two Parties and States; enhancing delegation exchanges and people-to-people activities under the “Viet Nam - China Year of People-to-People Exchange 2025”; developing synchronized infrastructure for border gates and crossings; expanding labor cooperation; and strengthening linkages in human resource training, technology transfer, digital transformation, agriculture, tourism, and trade.
He expressed confidence that with strong determination and joint efforts, cooperation between Tuyen Quang and Yunnan will continue to develop effectively, contributing to the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Viet Nam and China in the new era.
Yunnan delegates attending the meeting.
Speaking at the meeting, Secretary Wang Ning of Yunnan expressed his appreciation for Tuyen Quang’s remarkable achievements following the provincial streamlining, particularly in maintaining socio-economic stability, improving living standards, and expanding international cooperation. He affirmed that Yunnan attaches great importance to its traditional friendship and cooperation with Tuyen Quang, viewing it as a key locality with vast potential for strengthening ties with Viet Nam’s northeastern region.
Secretary Wang Ning highly valued the cooperation orientations proposed by Secretary Hau A Lenh and emphasized that the two provinces share many similarities in natural conditions, agricultural potential, tourism resources, a young workforce, and convenient border-gate connections. He expressed Yunnan’s desire to work closely with Tuyen Quang to enhance infrastructure connectivity, improve customs clearance efficiency at the Tianbao (Thanh Thuy) International Border Gate, and expand cooperation in labor, culture, education, and training. Regarding tourism - a field of great potential - he suggested both sides strengthen collaboration to unlock and jointly develop this sector.
Tuyen Quang delegates attending the bilateral meeting with Yunnan Party Secretary Wang Ning.
The bilateral meeting between Mr. Hau A Lenh, Secretary of the Tuyen Quang Provincial Party Committee (Viet Nam), and Mr. Wang Ning, Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee (China), was an important diplomatic activity. It not only deepened the traditional friendship between the two provinces but also opened up new, substantive avenues for cooperation - especially in border economy, trade, labor, agriculture, cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and border management - concretely embodying the spirit of "long-term stability, comprehensive cooperation, good-neighborly friendship, and looking toward the future" between the two Parties and States of Viet Nam and China.
Nguyen Thanh Hieu
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