General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong (R) meets with Liu Yunshan, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department, in Hanoi, Vietnam, on June 6, 2012. (Xinhua/Zhang Jianhua)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong met here on Wednesday with Liu Yunshan, a senior official of the Communist Party of China ( CPC), on friendly ties between the two countries and the two parties.

Liu, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department, arrived in Vietnam Wednesday to attend the 8th seminar on governing experiences, which is jointly held by the CPC and the CPV.

During the meeting, Liu conveyed the greetings from Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, to Nguyen Phu Trong.

He said the relationship between the two parties and two countries showed positive trends in recent years. Both sides witnessed frequent high-level exchanges, significant achievements in trade and economic cooperation, and active cultural exchanges.

Liu said the regular mechanism of exchanges of views on respective governing experiences is conducive to the cause of socialism and party building for the two countries. The CPC and Chinese government always look at China-Vietnam relations from a strategic height and long-term perspective. China is ready to work with Vietnam to fully implement the consensus reached by top leaders of the two countries.

Trong said the seminar has become an important platform for the two parties to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of both sides and exchange governing experiences. He said the CPV and Vietnamese government are willing to work with the Chinese party and government to push forward the development of Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

On the same day, Dinh The Huynh, a member of the Political Bureau and secretariat of the CPV Central Committee, met with Liu Yunshan, during which the two sides exchanged views on further developing bilateral relations, especially in the field of publicity and cultural cooperation, and jointly attended the signing ceremony of an agreement to enhance the cooperation between CPC-CPV publicity departments.