Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday met with Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Le Van Dung at the Great Hall of People in Beijing.

During the meeting, Xi said the two countries had stepped up their strategic cooperative partnership under the guidance of the principle of "long-term stability, facing the future, good-neighborliness and friendship, and all-round cooperation."

China was willing to make efforts with Vietnam to expand practical cooperation and properly handle sensitive issues so as to push forward the all-round strategic cooperative partnership, Xi said.

Xi said he hoped the two armed forces would continue to enhance exchanges, increase mutual trust and make contributions to cementing and developing bilateral ties.

Dung, also director of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Armed Forces, said the Vietnamese people always bore in mind the support of the Chinese people in Vietnam's national liberation and socialist construction process.

Vietnam and China shared broad common interests, said Dung, adding the two nations should enhance exchanges and cooperation in a bid to advance the bilateral strategic cooperative partnership.