New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's second visit to China within this year, a senior Chinese leader today said that Beijing welcomes and supports India's rise and sees it as "mutually beneficial".
"We welcome, support and hope to see the development of India because we believe it will provide opportunities for China as well. Likewise, we also believe that India also sees China in the same way," Yu Zhengsheng, Politburo member of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said here.
"In recent years the relationship between our two countries - state-to-state, government-to-government, people -to-people - have witnessed rapid development. Bilateral ties between our two countries are now in very good shape," Yu, also secretary of CPC in Shanghai, China s economic hub, told PTI in an interview.
Prime Minister Singh is scheduled to visit Beijing from October 23-25 to attend the Seventh Asia-Europe Summit. Singh is expected to meet with China s top leadership during his stay in the Chinese capital. Singh, who had visited China for the first time in January this year, had a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao in New York on September 25 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.
Yu is currently on a visit to India at the invitation of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Apart from meeting with the Chairperson of the UPA, Yu had separate meetings with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and BJP president Rajnath Singh.
Yu said that economic prosperity and development and China and India were "mutually beneficial" for the two nations because as more countries become richer, the opportunities to create wealth are also enhanced.
