Beijing: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on June 25 left for the historical central Chinese city of Luoyang after firmly establishing a qualitatively new relationship with China's new leadership and signing two historic documents that would lead to resolving all pending bilateral differences including the vexed boundary issue.

Vajpayee, who met with Chinese President and Communist Party general secretary Hu Jintao, chairman of the Central Military Commission Jiang Zemin, chairman of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice President Zeng Qinghong separately had "positive and fruitful" talks with them, Chinese foreign ministry sources said.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to Vajpayee's visit and has already deemed it "successful" and "significant to China-India relations", Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said.

Kong described the newly signed declaration on the principles for relations and comprehensive cooperation between China and India as "positive, mutually-beneficial, balanced and a win-win situation".

The declaration means a great deal, not only in terms of the current development of the two nations, but also to their long-term development and to the stability, prosperity and development of South Asia, he said.

PTI