Party General Secretary and President To Lam and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping witnessed the signing of 14 cooperation documents between ministries, agencies and localities of the two countries after their talks held in Beijing on August 19, according to a report from the Government News.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) of Vietnam and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on industrial cooperation.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment of Vietnam signed a MoU with the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) on promoting development cooperation projects in the social and livelihood fields.

The State Bank of Vietnam and the People's Bank of China signed a MoU on enhancing cooperation and information exchange in banking operations.

The signed documents also included a certificate of the handover of the results of the aid project for Vietnam in the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong standard gauge railway planning between the two governments; and a MoU on healthcare cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Health and the National Health Commission of China.

There were also three protocols on plant quarantine and food safety for frozen durian, plant quarantine requirements for fresh coconuts, and quarantine and health requirements for farmed crocodiles exported from Vietnam to China between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the General Administration of Customs China.

An official letter was signed between the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam and the CIDCA on the feasibility study of the technical aid project for planning two standard gauge railway routes of Lang Son - Hanoi and Mong Cai - Ha Long – Hanoi.

There were also MoUs on enhancing economic and trade cooperation between the MoIT and the authorities of Hainan and Shandong provinces of China.

An agreement on professional cooperation between the Vietnam News Agency and China's Xinhua News Agency; an MoU on strengthening cooperation between the Vietnam Television and the China Central Radio and Television; an MoU on press and media exchange program for 2024-2029 between the Vietnam Journalists' Association and the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA); and an MoU between the Vietnamese Ministry of Health and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine on cooperation in traditional medicine were also signed.