国内英语新闻:Chinese, Vietnamese parties hold 15th theory seminar

GUIYANG, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) held their fifteenth theory seminar on Sunday in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province.

The seminar focused on exploring laws of socialist modernization in China and Vietnam.

The opening ceremony of the seminar was attended by Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and Vo Van Thuong, head of the CPV Central Committee's Communication and Education Commission.

Huang said in his keynote speech that the CPC has led the Chinese people in successfully creating the road of modernization construction with Chinese characteristics that has promoted the fast development of the country, based on the national conditions and by adhering to putting the people first, taking the economic construction as the central task and adhering to the reform and opening up.

Prior to the seminar, Huang, who is also head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, held talks with Thuong. They exchanged views on deepening relations between the two parties and two countries and on enhancing media exchanges and cooperation.