China: Yes to mend ties with Vietnam

BEIJING- The Chinese government sought their willingness to create ties with Vietnam as China's President Xi Jinping told a special envoy from Vietnam that China and Vietnam should deter hostility and be "friendly to each other," Xinhua news agency said.

The first sign of a concerted effort to heal the rift between the two countries, which share annual trade worth $50 billion is on the visit to Beijing by Hong Anh, a member of the Vietnamese Communist Party's powerful politburo.

"(I) hope the Vietnamese will make joint efforts with the Chinese to put the bilateral relationship back on the track of development," Le Hong Anh said.

As quoted by Xinhua, a member of the China's elite Politburo Standing Committee, Lin Yunshan, telling the visitor that both sides should bring bilateral relations back on track.

Xinhua said that it was started under an agreement that Liu and the visitor has reached, that both countries will earnestly implement a basic guideline for the resolution of China-Vietnamese maritime issues signed in October 2011.

China and Vietnamese agreed to possibly seek lasting solutions including the studying of joint exploration to avoid disputes between both sides.

Vietnamese' one good reason on mending the ties with its giant neighbour is the need of supply on Chinese materials that the country has been relying to.