PM Pham Minh Chinh begins working trip to China for regional summits

This marks the first time in six years that the GMS, ACMECS, and CLMV summits are being held in person, providing an opportunity for leaders to discuss cooperation directions to ensure these mechanisms move confidently into a new era of development.

Chinh’s trip to China is expected to convey many meaningful messages to the subregion, the region, and the international community. In the context of an unprecedentedly comprehensive and profound global economic transformation, with green and digital transitions and sustainable, inclusive development becoming ever more urgent, the Mekong Subregion needs to make breakthrough steps to meet new development demands.

At these summits, alongside traditional issues like economic cooperation, trade and investment facilitation, infrastructure connectivity, and sustainable cross-border water resource management, the leaders will focus on new issues, notably innovation. These new areas of cooperation serve as a powerful impetus to position the GMS, ACMECS, and CLMV not only as core mechanisms for subregional cooperation but also as pioneering mechanisms to elevate the Mekong Subregion in regional and global value chains.

This is an important occasion for Vietnam to express its willingness to strengthen mutual understanding, and deepen the friendly neighbourly relations with other member countries, as well as to promote increasingly comprehensive economic, trade, and investment cooperation.

Besides attending and delivering important speeches at three multilateral summits, Chinh is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with several leaders of other countries; participate in activities to promote Vietnamese tourism; host a business roundtable; and visit economic and logistics facilities in Kunming and Chongqing, China.