The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that on March 2, 2025, at the Government Headquarters, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Prof. Dr. Khoi Dung - Alternate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - who is visiting and working in Vietnam.
At the meeting, the Prime Minister emphasized that Vietnam and China are two socialist neighbors, with mountains and mountains, rivers and rivers, and have a long-standing traditional friendship. President Ho Chi Minh, President Mao Zheng and revolutionary predecessors of the two Parties and countries have built and fostered the "close relationship between Vietnam and China, both comrades and brothers".
The Party, State and people of Vietnam always identify developing friendly and cooperative relations with China as a consistent policy, an objective requirement, a strategic choice, a top priority in Vietnam's foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization and diversification; wish and be ready with the Party and Government of China to promote the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, the Vietnam - China Community of Shared Future with strategic significance to continue to develop healthily, stably, sustainably and increasingly substantially and effectively.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the signing of cooperation documents with Tsinghua University by the three leading universities of Vietnam, Hanoi National University, Ho Chi Minh City National University and National Economics University on this occasion not only contributes to promoting cooperation between the two sides, but also opens up valuable opportunities for Vietnamese students, lecturers and researchers to increase access to advanced knowledge, especially the outstanding scientific achievements of Tsinghua University.
The Prime Minister emphasized that with the traditional concept of "talent is a national resource", the Party and State of Vietnam attach great importance to and always identify education as "the top national policy".
The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam has identified human resource development, especially high-quality human resources, as one of three strategic breakthroughs for rapid and sustainable national development.
In particular, the Vietnamese Politburo recently decided to exempt all tuition fees for students from preschool to high school in public schools nationwide, implemented from the beginning of the new school year 2025 - 2026; this policy demonstrates the superiority of the socialist regime and the policy of ensuring fairness in access to education, "leaving no one behind".
The Prime Minister suggested that in the coming time, Tsinghua University continue to increase exchanges and cooperation with training institutions and research agencies of Vietnam, allocate more scholarships, learning and research opportunities for lecturers, students, scientists and experts from Vietnam to study and improve their qualifications.
Prof. Dr. Khau Dung - Secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University - emphasized the great importance and fully grasped the important guiding opinions of the Prime Minister on further promoting the cooperative relationship between Tsinghua University and Vietnam's agencies, universities, and research institutes, thereby actively contributing to enriching and deepening the content of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and the China-Vietnam Community of Shared Future of strategic significance.
Prof. Dr. Khau Dung expressed his congratulations and appreciation for the positive progress and important achievements of the Vietnamese education and training sector in recent times under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the strong direction and direction of the Vietnamese Government; affirmed that he will continue to pay attention to and strongly promote cooperation in education and training, academic exchanges, and scientific research between the University of Thanh Hoa and Vietnamese agencies, universities, and research institutes in the coming time.
