Shanghai, Oct 14: Amid a 101 per cent growth in India's exports to China, the biggest-ever exposition of the country's strengths in a range of sectors like banking, health care, manufacturing, tourism opens today in China's commercial capital. Called 'India Week China', the first part of the seminar-cum-exhibition would open in this gleaming east Chinese city with a high-level seminar on the subject 'Sino-Indian Tourism: Dawn of a New Era.'
The seminar on tourism is taking place as China has granted approved destination status to India earlier this year that would allow more Chinese tourists to visit the country. Moreover, India and China recently eased visa requirements for all types of visitors to both countries that would help enhance people-to-people exchanges. The week-long first ever India week in China would be held in Shanghai and Beijing as a follow up to the June visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India's Consul General in Shanghai Sujan Chinoy told reporters.
The India Week China, organised jointly by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Embassy of India, Beijing and the Consulate General of India in Shanghai would go a long way in strengthening Sino-Indian economic cooperation, he said. With bilateral trade figures having crossed the four billion US dollar mark in the first seven months of this year, the growth curve is already on an upswing. Bilateral trade is growing at 62 per cent and India's exports at 101 per cent during January-July period. Bureau Report