VOV.VN - The Immigration Department of Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security and China’s National Immigration Administration held a conference On November 4 in Ho Chi Minh City to review six months of cooperation in preventing and combating illegal cross-border movements, covering the period from April to October.
Opening the meeting, Lieutenant General Pham Dang Khoa, Director of Vietnam’s Immigration Department, noted that the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and the efforts to build a “Vietnam-China Community with a Shared Future” have deepened bilateral exchanges and cooperation. Both governments have been promoting the application of science and technology in immigration management, while expanding policies to facilitate movement for residents of the two countries.
This openness has driven increasing cross-border flows at Vietnam-China border checkpoints, which has also led to a rise in violations of immigration laws, particularly illegal entries and exits along land border routes between the two nations.
Reporting at the conference, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Phan Huy Van, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Police, said that from the beginning of 2025 to the present, the city recorded over 4.2 million temporary residence declarations by foreigners, with more than 168,000 currently residing in the city, including over 64,000 Chinese nationals.
Taking advantage of this high traffic, criminal groups have turned the city into a transit hub. Ho Chi Minh City Police have uncovered 146 cases of illegal entry and exit involving 431 individuals, including 195 Chinese citizens. Functional agencies have prosecuted 14 cases with 42 defendants for organizing or brokering illegal entry and exit.
Ho Chi Minh City Police detected people using ambulances to transport illegal entrants and processing payments through multiple intermediary accounts to conceal their activities. The routes have diversified. In addition to the northern border provinces of Lang Son and Lao Cai, illegal entrants from Cambodia, often gathering in Svay Rieng Province, have used trails through An Giang, Tay Ninh, and Kien Giang to reach Ho Chi Minh City before continuing north toward China
From the Chinese side, Ding Lishen, Head of the Guangxi Province Border Control General Station, said that border control efforts have become increasingly effective. Both countries have coordinated public awareness campaigns on migration and jointly combated illegal entries and exits. However, this type of crime remains complex and evolving.
Ding expressed the hope that the two countries would strengthen coordination, share information, and establish joint focal points across all areas to deepen bilateral cooperation.
The conference was seen as a substantive step forward, bringing Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security and China’s National Immigration Administration closer to practical, in-depth coordination.
Strengthening border security management safeguards national security and social order in each country while creating a safe corridor to promote trade, tourism, and people-to-people exchanges, thus boosting stable and sustainable bilateral development.
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