​Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai. Know what kind of a partnership India and China are planning to ink

The catch phrase of India’s diplomacy with China in the 1950’s was ‘Hindi-Chini bhai bhai,’ but it lost its essence soon after the Sino-Indian war in 1962. Today, the ongoing border issue with China has been creating strife in the Indo-China relationship, but the aim to achieve high economic growth and regional cooperation has tied the two nations together.

The two countries are likely to enter into a landmark agreement in order to setup a stage for cooperation between India states and Chinese provinces during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming China visit. This will help the countries to foster bilateral trade and investments, as revealed in an Economic Times report.

Le Yucheng, China's Ambassador to India, told ET, "The two countries hope to agree to create a platform that will enhance cooperation between chief ministers of India and governors of Chinese provinces. This could be concluded during PM Modi's visit to China in May."
This new plan that both the nations are likely to come up will be similar to the platforms that China has with the US and Russia to strengthen its relations.

"States and provinces are engines of growth and this platform would increase bilateral trade and investments, and people-to-people contact," the envoy told ET.

The two countries are likely to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to increase the number of cities in the list of sister-city cooperation between India and China during Modi's maiden trip to China as PM, Le added.

During Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to India in 2014, India and China has signed a bilateral agreement to make the two metropolitan cities, Shanghai and Mumbai, as sister cities. Also during the same visit, the two nations also inked another agreement in Gujarat to make Ahmedabad, a sister city of Guangzhou, which is a leading commercial centre in China.
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