Indian foreign secretary’s visit to Beijing an opportunity to boost understanding, Chinese foreign minister says.

The Indian foreign secretary was in Beijing for a 2-day visit. This follows the Chinese foreign minister's meetings with EAM Jaishankar & NSA Ajit Doval last year.

With eyes on the resumption direct flights between India and China, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is scheduled to hold talks with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong on Monday

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with the visiting India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday in Beijing. Wang said China and India should seize the opportunity to meet each other halfway, explore more substantive measures, and commit themselves to mutual… pic.twitter.com/TMAlqbH23q

India has voiced concern about Beijing’s plan to build a dam in Tibet that is three times larger than China’s Three Gorges, currently the world’s largest hydropower facility.

Delhi has so far maintained that it would like to see progress on the border situation before moving on to normalising the relationship.

During Misri’s visit, discussions are expected to address the de-escalation of tensions along the LAC, resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, and measures to facilitate people-to-people exchanges.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday called on Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussed issues of bilateral interest. Misri is here on a two-day visit for talks with Chinese officials to improve India-China relations.

The top diplomats of China and India have called for their nations to provide further mutual support, but avoided publicly mentioning a long-standing border dispute in the Himalayas.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to discuss improving India-China ties.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will reiterate New Delhi’s concerns over Beijing’s move to build a mega hydropower plant on Yarlung Tsangpo river in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China – a project which might result in a diminishing flow of water into Siang and Brahmaputra in India.