China will further promote its relations with Vietnam, Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju said in Beinng on Sunday.

The China-Vietnam ties have developed smoothly under the guidelines of "long-term stability, looking forward to the future, good-neighborliness and all-round cooperation," said Huang, also member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

China is willing to make joint efforts with Vietnam to achieve the goal of the two countries being good neighbors, friends, comrades and partners, he said when meeting with Vu Khoan, Vietnamese deputy prime minister and member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party, who is in Beijing to attend the Third International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

The Chinese vice premier also congratulated Vietnam on the achievements in its own reform and opening-up cause, which was initiated in 1986.

Vu said the conference reflected the common aspiration of the Asian parties to seek peace, cooperation and development, as well as the increasing influence of the CPC in Asia and the rest of the world.

The Vietnamese Communist Party will join hands with the CPC to further develop relations between Vietnam and China in an all-round, healthy and stable way, he added.

(Xinhua News Agency September 6, 2004)