In yet another step towards improving ties, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Friday held extensive talks under a newly established framework and agreed on "ten pillars" of cooperation to enhance cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
Both Doval and Wang are the designated special representatives for border talks between India and China.
Wang also conveyed the desire of Chinese leadership to work with the new government for further enhancing the strategic partnership between Pakistan and China.
Sounding positive on bilateral ties in the coming year, Wang Yi said: "The Chinese dragon and Indian elephant must not fight each other but dance with each other."
During her meeting with Wang Yi, Sushma Swaraj also underlined the need for approaching “our difference with due consideration to each other’s sensitivities and concerns”.
The bilateral ties went through a serious test after Indian border troops "illegally trespassed" into the Chinese territory in June, Wang told Swaraj on Monday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to New Delhi is the first by a top Chinese official to India after the 73-day Dokalam standoff and after the commencement of the second five-year term of President Xi Jinping.
This is the first high-level visit from China after Indian and Chinese troops were in a tense face-off earlier this year in Doklam on the border.
The brief interaction between Swaraj and Wang came two weeks after PM Narendra Modi had a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Xiamen.
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