President Xi Jinping (L), who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, shakes hands with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov 5, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

HANOI - General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks Thursday with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, and they agreed to push forward their countries' comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Xi is paying a state visit to Vietnam from Thursday to Friday at the invitation of Trong and Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.

During the talks between Xi and Trong, the two sides agreed to adhere to the guidelines of long-term stability, looking into the future, good-neighborly friendship and comprehensive cooperation, as well as the spirit of good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners, and advance their partnership in a sustained, healthy and steady way.

China and Vietnam constitute a community of common destiny with strategic significance, Xi said, urging the two sides to inherit and maintain the "comradely and brotherly" traditional friendship built and carefully cultivated by Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the older generation.

Xi conveyed congratulations for the 85th anniversary of the founding of the CPV and the 70th anniversary of that of Vietnam.

China supports Vietnam in sticking to the leadership of the CPV and adhering to the path of socialism as well as its cause of deepening reform, he said, voicing his confidence in the success of Vietnam's reform under the leadership of the CPV.

In the talks, Xi put forward a seven-point proposal on developing relations between the two parties and the two nations.

He suggested the two sides strengthen political guidance to bilateral relations, maintain the tradition of high-level exchanges and enhance their communication and mutual trust.

He called on the two sides to deepen party-to-party exchanges by implementing their new cooperation plan on cadre training and making a success of their theory seminars.

The two countries have reached consensus on expanding cooperation within the framework of China's Belt and Road Initiative and Vietnam's "Two Corridors and One Economic Circle" plan, as well as on enhancing production capacity cooperation, said Xi.

The two sides should make good use of the two working groups -- one for infrastructure cooperation and the other for finance and currency cooperation -- to push forward China's construction of the Long Giang Industrial Park and the Hai Phong Industrial Park in Vietnam, said the president.