BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent a congratulatory message to Lao Vice President Bounnhang Vorachit on his election as the secretary-general of the Lao ruling People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP).
On behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and in his own name, Xi extended warm congratulations to Bounnhang on his election as the LPRP's new chief at the 10th National Congress of the LPRP earlier Friday.
Xi said that since the convening of the 9th National Congress of the LPRP, steady progress has been made in the construction of socialism and the cause of innovation in Laos, under the strong leadership of the LPRP Central Committee, with social harmony and stability, with rapid economic development and with increasing improvement of the people's livelihood.
Xi expressed the belief that under the leadership of the Central Committee of the LPRP with Bounnhang as the secretary-general, the LPRP and the Lao government will definitely lead the Lao people of all ethnic groups to unite wholeheartedly, actively forge ahead, stick to leadership by the LPRP and the path of socialism, and promote the construction of socialism and the cause of innovation in Laos toward the achievement of even greater success on the basis of a new start point.
Xi stressed that the CPC and the Chinese government have always viewed the relations with their Lao counterparts from a strategic height and from a long-term perspective.
The CPC and the Chinese government will adhere to the guidelines of "long-term stability, good neighborliness and friendship, mutual trust and comprehensive cooperation" and the spirit of being "truly good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners" as they have always been doing, Xi said.
The CPC and the Chinese government will work with the LPRP and the Lao government to promote healthy and stable development of the China-Laos comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership on a long-term basis, build an unbreakable China-Laos community of common destiny and jointly make new contributions to peace, cooperation, development and prosperity of the region and the world.