Representatives from China and Vietnam discussed good neighborliness in Wenshan, Yunnan Province. Wenshan Prefecture and Tuyen Quang Province signed a cooperation plan

China News Service, Wenshan, Yunnan, November 6 (Reporter Han Shuainan) The "Wenshan Good Neighborly" 2026 China-Vietnam Friendly Cooperation and Sister Cities Dialogue was held on the 6th in the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province on the China-Vietnam border. Representatives from China and Vietnam had in-depth dialogues on sister-city friendship, economic and trade exchanges, people-to-people and cultural exchanges and other areas, and reached a number of consensuses. Wenshan Prefecture and Vietnam's Tuyen Quang Province signed a cooperation plan at the meeting.

Zhao Guoliang, Secretary of the Wenshan Prefecture Party Committee, introduced in his speech that Vietnam is Wenshan Prefecture’s largest trading partner. In 2025, the value of Wenshan's imports and exports to Vietnam was 6.95 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 136.7%. Durian imports alone reached 5.1 billion yuan, making Wenshan Tianbao Port the third mainland durian import port in China. From January to October this year, Wenshan Prefecture saw 756,400 inbound and outbound passengers, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%. Zhao Guoliang expressed the hope that the two sides would work together to achieve new improvements in economic and trade exchanges, cultural and tourism cooperation, connectivity, and border governance.

Nim Viet Chung, Consul General of Vietnam in Kunming, said that the theme of this conference is "Ven Son Good Neighborliness", which embodies the cordial and pragmatic concept of cherishing good-neighborly friendship, using dialogue as a bridge, taking mutually beneficial cooperation as the goal, and taking people-to-people connectivity as the lasting foundation. The two sides should give full play to the existing exchange, meeting and dialogue mechanisms and promote cooperation between professional authorities, friendly regions and friendly organizations.

Subsequently, representatives from Van Son Prefecture and Vietnam’s Dien Bien, Tuyen Quang, Lai Chau, Phu Tho, and Ninh Binh provinces successively promoted their local advantages and proposed cooperation ideas around cross-border agriculture, Chinese herbal medicine planting and processing, cultural tourism development, medical cooperation, and talent training. All parties agreed that it is necessary to rely on the "Wenshan Good Neighborly" brand to continue to expand the channels for pairing sister cities, sister towns, and friendly villages, and promote the transformation of more cooperation intentions into tangible projects.

At the meeting, Wenshan Prefecture and Tuyen Quang Province of Vietnam signed the "2026-2030 Cooperation Plan between the People's Government of Wenshan Prefecture of the People's Republic of China and the People's Committee of Tuyuan Quang Province of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam".