Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s2.t5.10

v2.c14.s2.t5.10

Invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, visited India from May 19-22 in 2013, during which he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi, Chairman of the Indian National Congress Party, Salman Khurshid, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other Indian leaders. Both sides published a joint communiqué expressing that they would seize the historic opportunity to enhance the mutually political trust, promote practical cooperation and broaden cultural exchange and decided to take 2014 as the “Sino-Indian Friendly Exchange Year” and complete the Sino-Indian Cultural Exchange Encyclopaedia in 2014. They agreed to start the inter-translation of classic Chinese and Indian works and continue to hold the annual exchange visit of a delegation of a 100 young people. Premier Li also visited Tata Group in Mumbai and attended the Sino-Indian Business Summit during which he made a speech. During this visit, the two countries had reached a consensus in the areas of economic and trade cooperation, eg, promoting trade liberalisation, developing large cooperation projects in the areas of industrial park and infrastructure, building the Bangladesh-China-India-Burma Economic Corridor and taking measures to cope with trade imbalance. This visit promoted the India-China strategic partnership for peace and prosperity to a higher level.