'On the spot Chinese visa for businessmen'

MUMBAI, APRIL 2. An Indian involved in economic and trade activities with China, can get a visa on the spot, Mr. Huang Quanheng, Consul General of the People's Republic of China, has said.

Inaugurating a symposium on `50 years of diplomatic relation between India and China' here yesterday, organised by `India- China Friendship Association (ICFA)', Mr. Quanheng said he was willing to build widespread and profound relations with India to promote rapid development of mutual economic and trade relations.

``Sustained economic development in our two countries has created favourable conditions for expanding bilateral trade and economic relations and cooperation and the bilateral trade volume has reached 1987 million U.S. dollars in 1999'', he said.

``In fact, in South Asia, India has become China's biggest trading partner'', he added.

Talking about WTO, he alleged that the existing trade system had obvious defects and it had failed to fully reflect the rights, interests and demands of the developing countries.

Mr. Quanheng said China could help in infrastructure and construction areas as their expertise in these areas were comparable to Western experts.

``We should work hard to overcome all difficulties, including lack of understanding of each other, and it could be brought to higher level of mutual trust,'' he added.

- PTI

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