The two countries are 'a community of shared destiny of strategic significance', official says

China and Vietnam should work together to promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral ties in the long term, officials of both countries' ruling parties said at a meeting on Thursday.

Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met in Beijing with Dinh The Huynh, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.