China-India cooperation to have profound significance: Chinese FM

Closer partnership between China and India will have positive and profound significance for the world, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday after meeting with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj.

As two of the world's major developing countries and emerging markets, China and India should work together through the alignment of each other's development strategies, in order to facilitate the earlier realization of the Asian century, said Wang, who is here attending the three-party talks with foreign ministers of Russia and India.

The two sides should give priority to implementing the consensus reached by leaders of both countries, and make plans for mutual high-level visits as well as exchanges at various levels, in a bid to advance the development of bilateral relations, Wang added.

As this year's G20 summit will be held in China and meetings of BRICS leaders are to take place in India, Wang said, the two countries should support each other's effort in this regard, so as to prove their roles in speeding up world economic recovery and promoting mutually beneficial cooperation among world nations, Wang added.

Wang also called for more cooperation in areas of railway construction, investment, tourism and cultural exchange.

Swaraj, for her part, pledged better coordination with China in political, economic and cultural fields for the benefit of both nations and peoples. Endi