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China-India bilateral trade volume in 2011 expected to exceed $ 70 billion
China and India in 2011 is the Year of Exchange, is the 61 anniversary of the Sino-Indian diplomatic relations. Indian Ambassador to China Dr. S. Jaishankar on the 6th review the development process of China-India relations, said, "After 60 years of exchanges, India and in the political, economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation in various fields has achieved remarkable achievements to the world, we can clear to see that bilateral relations are increasingly mature. "
"China-India relations have a good start." Dr. S. Jaishankar said that in 1950 India became the first in the new Chinese embassy set up a non-socialist countries. Over the past decade, the frequency of high-level visits and India as the most since the establishment of diplomatic relations, exchange of visits between leaders of both sides and above the Prime Minister met over ten times. In May 2010, Indian President Patil's visit to China, the two sides on further developing China-India strategic partnership reached a broad consensus; In December, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India, will set in 2011 India Exchange Year, the communication between the two activities to a new climax.
"China and India are both countries with ancient civilizations, has a long history and splendid culture, we should take advantage of these resources to strengthen exchanges, enhance understanding." Dr. S. Jaishankar said, "to promote friendship and cultural exchange is the most vivid, the most effective way One, I have to understand China through the Chinese film of the human customs and natural scenery. "
China and India to celebrate the Year of Exchange, in addition to the government level to enhance exchange of visits, the two sides will exchange visits 500 young parties, civil exchanges covering film, art, education, business and other aspects. 6, the Indian Cultural Relations Committee, the Indian Consulate General in Guangzhou was held at Yunnan University, Rabindranath Tagore's famous painting artist, and signed a cooperation memorandum with the establishment of Yunnan University, Rabindranath Tagore Chair.
As relations between China and India, a prominent bright spot, the rapid development of bilateral economic and trade cooperation. "We can see by the number of significant changes in bilateral trade." Dr. S. Jaishankar said that the 2000 Sino-Indian bilateral trade amounted to only $ 2.9 billion, and 2010 to reach $ 60 billion this year will exceed $ 70 billion, China has become India largest trading partner, Canada, India, have long been replaced by China's tenth largest trading partner. Last year, the two sides established a bilateral trade volume in 2015 reached $ 100 billion of new targets. "According to this rate, I believe the next five years, India will become China's fifth largest trading partner."
"China is implementing a new round of the western development strategy for economic and trade cooperation with South Asian countries has brought great opportunities." Stressed Dr. S. Jaishankar, India-China economic and trade cooperation is a new relationship between the most central elements.
Dr. S. Jaishankar said that in China and India, although the long process of interaction over waves, there are still some problems and obstacles, but that does not stop the healthy and stable Sino-Indian relations towards the direction of development. He believes that in India are major developing countries and emerging market countries, facing the same problems and challenges, have similar interests and responsibilities in the Doha Round negotiations, climate change, energy and food security and the international financial crisis and other major issues remain good coordination and cooperation to jointly safeguard the interests of developing countries.
"India and China are rapidly developing, to achieve effective cooperation between the two countries to promote cultural exchanges, for which we plan to cooperate with the Chinese Ministry of Education, the school offered Chinese language courses in India;" Encyclopedia of the Sino-Indian exchanges, "the compilation is about to start work , so that more people of India know the history of Sino-Indian relations. "Dr. S. Jaishankar expressed the belief that Sino-Indian relations will certainly have a better future.