Home | China | World | Business Jiang Encourages Youths of China, Vietnam to Work for Better Ties THU, FEB 28, 2002     General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Jiang Zemin called on Thursday the young people of China and Vietnam to promote the Sino-Vietnamese friendship and contribute to world peace and development. Jiang, now on a three-day official visit to Vietnam, made the call in a speech at Hanoi National University. "The bright future will be created by you, the young people, and the future belongs to you," Jiang said. He urged the students to love their motherland, take high aspirations and stick to their belief before any difficulties and hardships to realized the value of life. Jiang said the growth of young people is closely related to the future and fate of their country and nation. In the case of China and Vietnam, both socialist countries not rich at present, young people should carry on the revolutionary spirit of their predecessors by studying and working hard to consolidate and develop the socialist system for the prosperity of their motherland. He said young people should shape a world vision to follow world development and raise their capacity of practice and the level of cognition. "At the present world, new knowledge keeps cropping up and the mankind's ability of understanding the nature, the society and the mankind itself has been greatly enhanced. The productivity created throughout the world during the past 100 years outweighs what had been produced all the way up to 100 years ago. One of the fundamental reasons for the rapid growth in productivity is the fast development in science and technology," the Chinese leader said. He said that in the 21st century, new revolutionary breakthroughs in science and technology will push forward the development of productivity and profoundly affect the development process of world politics, economy and culture. Jiang expressed the hope that the Chinese and Vietnamese young people will cherish, maintain and promote the good Sino-Vietnamese relations, conduct more exchanges and learn from each other to promote mutual understanding so as to shoulder the historic responsibility of developing the Sino-Vietnamese ties. He pledged that the Chinese party and government entirely support the exchanges. Editor:Hope CCTV.com Recommend to your friend email:    China Central Television,All Rights Reserved