Narendra Modi to visit China in November 2011

File photo: Narendra Modi with Chinese ambassador

Gandhinagar, 24 October, 2011

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting China in November on invitation from the Chinese ambassador to India Zhang Yan, who was in Gandhinagar in August to open the fourth chapter of India-China Economic and Cultural Council in Gujarat.

Mr. Zhand Yan had invited Gujarat Chief Minister to visit China again. Modi first visited China on pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar.

In continuation of talk about Modi’s visit to China, today Mr. AI Ping, Vice Minister of China’s Central government today paid courtesy visit to Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi and invited him to visit China in the month of November.

Chinese minister discussed detail programme with Shri Modi about his proposed China visit.

China’s biggest telecom company Huawei is planning to invest in Gujarat. Official of Huawei – part of Shri I.Ping’s delegation – invited Chief Minister Modi to visit Huawei’s research and development center during his China visit.

Chinese vice minister and members of his delegation showed interest in extending cooperation to Gujarat for state’s plan of building a great Buddha temple containing Buddha’s relics.

Modi has been to China twice before on official visits.