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President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Guanzhou on Tuesday, on a four-day visit to China. The visit will see significant political and economic push to bilateral ties while irritants like Beijing's opposition to India's membership of NSG and the blocking of UN bid to blacklist JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist will also figure.
Mukherjee, who is making his first visit to China as President, has made a number of trips to this country in various capacities including as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and Defence Minister.
In Guangzhou, the highly industrialized city in China, Mukherjee will address the India-China Business Forum in which some top Indian industrialists will also be present.
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province in southern coastal China that contributes 12 per cent of the country's GDP and is home to a wide-ranging set of multinational and Chinese corporations.
The President will arrive in Beijing on Thursday where he will meet with President Xi Jinping and other top Chinese leaders, including Premier Li Keqiang and National People's Congress Chairman Zhang Dejiang.
The issues of Chinese reservations on India's membership in the Nuclear Supplier Group, and the UN ban on Azhar are expected to be discussed with the leaders.
Bilateral ties have been on an upswing since Xi's landmark India visit in September, 2014 during which both countries had signed 12 agreements and China pledged an investment of USD 20 billion in India's infrastructure sector.
(THE TIMES OF INDIA)
