Really overwhelmed by your hospitality, held talks with PM Modi like friends: Chinese President Xi Jinping
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold delegation level talks. Photograph: (ANI)
<p>A red carpet was rolled out on Friday to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping in the city with a grand cultural performance at the airport and school students waving flags of India and China in full display. Children in a large number were also seen holding cute panda soft toys.</p>Key Updates
12 Oct 2019, 2:06 PM (IST)
Wrapping up a two-day visit to India for an informal summit with PM Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping left for Nepal from Chennai International Airport.
12 Oct 2019, 10:18 AM (IST)
The focus of the meeting is likely to find ways to improve people-to-people contact, enhance trade and on how to maintain peace and tranquillity along the 3, 500-kilometre long India-China border.
Xi's short visit to India will come to an end this afternoon after attending the lunch hosted by PM Modi. President Xi will leave for Nepal this afternoon.
12 Oct 2019, 10:17 AM (IST)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a one-on-one conversation today followed by delegation-level talks at Tamil Nadu's coastal town of Mamallapuram.
12 Oct 2019, 9:27 (IST)
Trade and terror were the top focus on the first day of the second India-China informal summit as leaders of Asia's two largest countries met Tamil Nadu's Mamallapuram.
The first day of the informal summit saw PM Modi and Chinese President Xi spending five hours of "quality time".
PM Modi showed Chinese President thousands of years old UNESCO world heritage sites of Arjuna’s Penance, Krishna's butterball, Panch Rathas and Shore Temple which was followed by a cultural extravaganza that lasted for two hours.
11 Oct 2019, 5:14 PM (IST)
Read: Stage set for Modi-Xi second informal summit at picturesque Mamallapuram
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday tweeted in Chinese, Tamil and English welcoming Xi Jinping to India minutes after the Chinese President arrived in Chennai for the second India-China informal summit.
11 Oct 2019, 4:07 PM (IST)
Read: Modi-Xi second informal summit — Focus on border security, boosting trade and bilateral ties
The agenda for the second India-China informal summit seems definite - talks on boosting bilateral ties, trade, connectivity, border security and resolving regional and global issues.
11 Oct 2019, 4:05 PM (IST)
Read also: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Chennai, will meet PM Modi at Mamallapuram
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the Chennai airport on Friday afternoon to witness a red-carpet welcome and a rousing display of performances by folk dancers.