VNA launches Chinese website

HA NOI — The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) yesterday launched a Chinese version of its website.

"The Chinese version is proof of the agency's efforts to offer diverse media products and continue to be a reputable news agency in the country and world-wide," said VNA's general director Tran Mai Huong at the launching ceremony.

Huong said that this new version will provide its readers with the latest and most accurate information about Viet Nam, its people and society. The news will also include regional and global issues, as well as updates on Viet Nam and China relations.

China's Ambassador to Viet Nam Sun Guanxiang said he believed the Chinese version of VNA's website will support the two countries' economic and cultural exchanges. It reflects both Viet Nam and China's achievements during their national construction and development.

This Chinese online edition is uploaded through the VNANET server (http://www/news.vnanet.vn/) which provides about 500 news and updated photos per day. It is also published free of charge on the Vietnamplus website (http://cn.vietnamplus.vn/). Vietnamplus has received about 20 million hits a week and has news available in English, French and Spanish in addition to the new Chinese version. — VNS

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Chinese, Vietnamese youth exchange cultural ties

HA NOI — Party Central Committee Secretary Ha Thi Khiet yesterday applauded a cultural exchange programme designed for young ethnic people from Viet Nam and China.

She said she considered it an opportunity for them to learn from each other.

Khiet, who is also head of the Committee's Commission for Mass Mobilisation, welcomed the delegation of Chinese ethnic youth to Viet Nam on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

She said it had become a milestone in the Viet Nam-China Friendship Year 2010.

The visit was also a step to further strengthening co-operation, relations between the two nationalities' committees and a valuable contribution to developing the relationship between the two Parties and countries.

Head of the Chinese delegation Wang Quanlei affirmed that leaders of the Chinese State and Government, along with its people, always attached importance to developing traditional friendship with Viet Nam.

He also pledged to make every effort with the Vietnamese Party, State and people to increasingly develop the two nations' comprehensive strategic partnership. – VNS

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VN, Chinese heads laud nations' youth

HA NOI — The tradition of friendship between Viet Nam and China is a precious possession held in common by both nations, wrote Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh in a letter to the Viet Nam-China Youth Festival.

The relationship had been fostered by the late Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong and generations of revolutionaries and people in both countries, the letter said.

The tradition of friendship was manifested in the comprehensive strategic co-operation and partnership forged by the two countries under the motto of ‘friendly neighbourliness, comprehensive co-operation, long-lasting stability and looking towards the future' and in the spirit of ‘good neighbours, good friends, good comrades and good partners,' Manh wrote in the letter.

In his own letter to the festival, Chinese President and Party leader Hu Jintao said China was committed along with Viet Nam to constantly boosting co-operation in every field and deepening exchanges and friendship between the two countries.

He reaffirmed the importance of exchanges between young people, which would help boost mutual understanding and bring the friendship closer to the hearts of all people in both countries. The future of the two countries and of the relationship belonged to the younger generations, he said.

The festival, taking place in Guangxi, China, is celebrating the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and China. — VNS

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