The bilateral trade between China and Vietnam has surpassed 200 billion U.S. dollars for four consecutive years, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.
In recent years, the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has shown steady progress, said He Yongqian, a MOC spokeswoman, at a press conference in Beijing.
"I have a set of data here. Since 2004, China has been Vietnam's largest trading partner, and since 2016, Vietnam has become China's largest trading partner in ASEAN. Bilateral trade between the two countries has surpassed 200 billion U.S. dollars for four consecutive years, reaching 260.65 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up 13.5 percent year on year. Vietnam is a key destination for China's outbound investment, with direct investments from Chinese enterprises in Vietnam exceeding 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, maintaining relatively fast growth," He said.
"China stands ready to work with Vietnam to implement the series of important common understandings between the top leaders of the two parties and two countries on the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, improve and upgrade the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, and deliver more benefits to our two peoples," she said.
China-Vietnam trade exceeds 200 billion USD for four consecutive years
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will work with relevant departments and local authorities to take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the newly passed private sector promotion law, a landmark legislation concerning a vast economic force in the country, said an NDRC official.
China's top legislative body -the National People's Congress - passed the private sector promotion law on Wednesday, establishing a legal backing for the steady and healthy growth of the key sector, including more than 57 million private firms and over 100 million self-employed individuals.
This landmark law is China's first fundamental legislation dedicated to the private sector. It will bolster confidence among the vast community by improving the business environment, fostering innovation, and ensuring fair competition, according to NDRC, the country's top economic planner.
"The private sector promotion law has actively responded to the key concerns in the development of the private sector. Efforts are made to establish and improve relevant systems and enhance the enforceability of the systems, from ensuring fair competition, improving investment and financing environment, supporting technology innovation, focusing on regulated operation, optimizing services and guarantees, and improving rights and interest protection, to strengthening legal accountability, so as to ensure that all forms of ownership can equally utilize production factors by the law, participate in market competition fairly, receive equal legal protection, further unleash their complementary advantages, and pursue common development," said Liu Min, deputy director of Private Sector Development Bureau under NDRC.
Liu added NDRC will continue to work together with relevant departments and local authorities to improve supporting systems and mechanisms and take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the private sector promotion law.
"We will make continuous and increasing efforts to remove barriers to market access and to fair competition, to address the issue of overdue payments to private enterprises, to protect the lawful rights and interests of private businesses and entrepreneurs by the law, to implement various relief policies, to help private enterprises shoulder their responsibilities of the era, so as to help translate legal systems into concrete actions and tangible outcomes that promote the high-quality development of the private sector," said Liu.
Concrete steps to take for firmly implementing China's landmark private sector promotion law: official
