At the reception, the guest informed the host of outcomes of the previous meeting of the Vietnam-China Cooperation Committee for Management of Land Border Gates. He said that the two sides mapped out effective approaches to boost cooperation and coordination in immigration management as well as preventing and fighting smuggling and trade fraud.
Both sides agreed several measures to support each other in implementing customs clearance procedures, improving the business environment of each side’ border gates, and upgrading facilities for exports activities, he added.
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Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh (R) and Zhang Guangzhi, Chairman of the Chinese Committee of Border Gate Management Cooperation |
In turn, the host highly valued the outcomes of the meeting and suggested the two sides continue expanding cooperation in border gates’ management, enhancing relationship, and building a smooth mechanism for the two sides’ commercial exchange.
* Previously, the sixth meeting of the Vietnam-China Cooperation Committee for Management of Land Border Gates took place on the same day.
The meeting was co-chaired by Chairman of the Vietnamese sub-committee Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien, member of the Party Central Committee and Commander of the Border Guard Command, and Chairman of the Chinese sub-committee Zhang Guangzhi.
Over the last five years, the two sub-committees have held five conferences in both countries on a rotational basis, and conducted three joint surveys of border gates. Their specialists have held talks to discuss measures to implement the agreement on border gates and a framework deal on border gate cooperation.
The two sides have conducted studies learning experience form the “one-stop shop” model of the pair of Vietnam’s Lao Bao and Laos’ Densavan international border gates, and plan to turn the Huu Nghi-You Yi Guan and Lao Cai-Hekou gates into a “model pair of border gates”.
The working groups of the seven Vietnamese border provinces and the border gate offices of China’s Guangxi and Yunnan provinces have maintained meetings to resolve issues and discuss cooperation.
In the next five years (2019-2024), the two sides agreed to accelerate the upgrading of the designated border gate pairs and propose their Governments to assign the two foreign ministries to work with relevant ministries and sectors to make revisions and supplements to the border gate regulations.
They also concurred to boost information sharing and regularly update each other on changes in their countries’ legal regulations on immigration and export-import, thus facilitating people and businesses’ activities.
Translated by Trung Thanh