Steady growth of China-India relation,says Wang Yi

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that successful second summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Chennai this year has charted the course for the steady growth of China-India relation.

In an interview to a Chinese newspaper, the People’s Daily, about China’s diplomatic achievements in 2019, Mr. Wang mentioned the 2nd informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in October as the first highlight of the Chinese diplomacy in the neighbourhood, saying that China has improved and developed relations with its neighbours in an all-round way.

At an earlier ocassion, Mr. Wang said that Chennai summit had set the tone for a steady and sound development of ties between India and China. President Xi and Prime Minister Modi held around five-and-half hours of one-on-one talks spread over two days as part of the second informal summit in Chennai where they decided to deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields, promote exchanges and mutual learning between civilisations, and maintain a stable Sino-Indian relationship. Our Special Correspondent in Beijing reports that during the India China border talks in India last week, Chennai Vision and Chennai Connect was at the core.