TIANJIN - Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday met with Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh, who is in North China's Tianjin municipality for the 2025 Summer Davos.

Noting that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam, Li said the deep friendship of "comrades and brothers" has remained firm and fresh over time. Since the successful visit of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, to Vietnam in April, the comprehensive strategic cooperation between China and Vietnam has been further advanced.

China is willing to continue to implement the outcomes of President Xi's visit with Vietnam to bring more benefits to the two peoples, Li said.

Li pointed out that the unstable and uncertain factors in the current international situation are still increasing. China and Vietnam should unite more closely, enhance strategic communication and mutually beneficial cooperation. This is not only beneficial to both sides, but also to the region and the world.

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He noted that China is willing to accelerate the alignment of development strategies with Vietnam, implement the cooperation plan on synergizing the Belt and Road Initiative and the Two Corridors and One Economic Circle strategy, expand cooperation in areas such as artificial intelligence, digital economy and green development, and jointly foster new economic drivers.

Both sides should enhance exchanges and cooperation in areas such as culture, tourism, education and media, and successfully hold a series of activities for the China-Vietnam Year of People-to-People Exchange, Li said.

China welcomes Vietnam to become a BRICS partner country and is willing to work with Vietnam to safeguard free trade and the multilateral trading system, promote an equal and orderly multi-polar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, and inject more stability and positive energy into world peace and development, Li said.

Pham Minh Chinh said that Vietnam is willing to work with China to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties, further enhance high-level exchanges, improve political mutual trust, strengthen strategic communication, promote practical cooperation, and deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges.

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Vietnam firmly supports the three major global initiatives proposed by President Xi and looks forward to strengthening multilateral cooperation with China, defending multilateralism and safeguarding common interests, he noted.  

The Chinese premier also met with Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev in Tianjin.

Li said that under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, China-Kyrgyzstan relations have achieved leapfrog development in recent years, and comprehensive cooperation has reached new heights.

China is willing to work with Kyrgyzstan continuously to enrich the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership for the new era, build a closer China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future, and move forward hand-in-hand on the road to modernization.

Noting that China and Kyrgyzstan are neighbors with complementary industries, Li said China is ready to enhance the alignment of development strategies with Kyrgyzstan, focus on key areas, emphasize practical results, and increase the scale and efficiency of cooperation.

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Both sides should make good use of the inter-governmental economic and trade cooperation committee mechanism, and strive to reach a high-level agreement on trade in services and investment as soon as possible, Li added.

He called on the two countries to steadily advance the construction of interconnection projects such as the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway, and to create highlights of cooperation in emerging fields.

China is ready to import more high-quality and distinctive commodities from Kyrgyzstan, encourages Chinese enterprises to invest and start businesses in Kyrgyzstan, and hopes that the Kyrgyz side will continue to optimize its business environment, Li said.

He also called for personnel exchanges between the two countries to be facilitated further, for multilateral cooperation to be strengthened, for unilateralism and protectionism to be opposed, and for free trade and the stability of global production and supply chains to be safeguarded.

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Kasymaliev said that the Kyrgyz side has great appreciation for the remarkable achievements China has made in promoting the development of new quality productive forces, adheres to the one-China principle, opposes any act of interference in China's internal affairs under the guise of the Taiwan question, and opposes any form of "Taiwan independence".

Kyrgyzstan is willing to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with China in trade, investment, finance, connectivity and other fields, and stands ready to coordinate and cooperate closely within such frameworks as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the China-Central Asia mechanism, he noted. Kyrgyzstan is ready to work with China to oppose unilateralism and protectionism, and promote bilateral relations to reach higher levels, he added.