Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal met Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao on Monday wherein they agreed to implement the important consensus reached by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting on the sidelines of BRICS Summit.

The two leaders, in a bilateral meeting held on Saturday, had agreed to “expand mutually beneficial cooperation in the economic and trade fields, properly address each other’s economic and trade concerns in a balanced manner, and better benefit enterprises and people of both countries,” Spokesperson of Chinese Embassy in India Yu Jing said in post on X.

The two leaders had a sincere and in-depth exchange of views and reached the important consensus that China and India should be partners.

According to an earlier statement released by Chinese Embassy Spokesperson Xu Feihong, Xi had pointed out that China always approaches and develops its relations with India from a strategic and long-term perspective.