China's Vice President Xi Jinping (L) talks with Vietnam's General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong at the Party's Office in Hanoi December 21, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

HANOI - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) and the Communist Youth League of China have affirmed their determination to boost the development of the two countries' youth relations.

First secretary of the HCMCYU Central Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh and first secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee Lu Hao made the affirmation at a working session here on Tuesday, which took place within the framework of the 12th Vietnam-China Youth Friendship Meeting program.

The two sides agreed that their youth unions would increase exchange and jointly realize policies and common perception of the two countries' leaders about people-to-people exchange.

They underlined the role of youths in upholding the friendship between the two parties, states and peoples.

The two sides spoke highly of the efficiency of the youth cadres' training program, the exchange of practical experience and research results and the annual organization of the Vietnam- China Youth Friendship Meeting, and the exchange for youths in the border areas which, they said, have attracted the participation of thousands of the two countries' youths.