MUMBAI, India - Sitting in a conference room at Bombay House, a privately owned building in the heart of Mumbai that dates back to the 1920s, B. Muthuraman looks like most of India's successful businessmen with the ambition to make a difference in the world.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh urged both sides to jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the border areas, and to maintain cooperation in various fields.
China and India vowed on Thursday to raise bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2015, from $60 billion in 2010, and called for a stronger partnership between Asia's two giants.
Special: Wen's India Visit to Deepen Economic Ties
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his hope Thursday that his ongoing visit to India will strengthen bilateral cooperation and lift bilateral ties to a new height.
China and India's future prosperity lies in partnership not rivalry, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday, promising to redress a yawning trade imbalance between the rapidly growing Asian giants.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday called for further promotion of bilateral cooperation and trade links with India.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, China's top telecom gear maker, aims to invest more than $2 billion in India over the next five years.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday that the relationship between China and India not only benefits the two peoples, but also is of great significance to peace and development in Asia and the world as a whole.
China has not intentionally sought to have a trade surplus with India and has been looking for ways to increase purchases from the country, a top Chinese economic diplomat in India said.
BEIJING - It is difficult to believe there were ever any tensions between India and China. On the eve of Premier Wen Jiabao's state visit to India, as we spoke to a handful of the few thousand Indians settled in China and asked them what they thought was the best thing about living in the country, the warmth and goodwill exuded by the Chinese were a clear winner.
Madhulika Sen, principal of the Tagore International School in the Indian capital, wanted to make sure that her students get a chance to talk to "Grandpa Wen" and have pictures taken with him when he visits the school.
Beijing and New Delhi on Friday agreed to seek a just and reasonable resolution to their border dispute, sending out a positive note ahead of Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India later this year.