Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a summit meeting in China from April 27 to 28 to improve bilateral relations, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced in Beijing on Sunday.
Prime Minister Modi will be visiting the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the invitation of President Xi, Wang said at a joint media event, with visiting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj after their talks.
Swaraj is in China for talks with Wang, and to take part in the two-day meeting of foreign ministers of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) from Monday.
Informed sources told PTI that it will be an informal summit meeting between Xi and Modi during which both leaders will try to work out a new paradigm for the bilateral ties bogged down with a host of disputes and differences.
This will be fourth visit of Modi to China after he came to power in 2014. He is due to visit China again to take part in the SCO summit to be held at Qingdao city on June 9-10.
The Modi-Xi summit meeting is taking place in the backdrop of series of high level interactions between both the two countries, starting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang's visit to India in December, the first after Dokalam stand-off.
It was followed by two meetings between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, and the visit early this year by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale to Beijing.
The two countries also held 11th Joint Economic Group meeting and the fifth Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) in Beijing recently.