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China connected Friday (December 12, 2025) welcomed India's determination to velocity up support of concern visas to Chinese professionals visiting the state for abbreviated periods, describing it arsenic a "positive" step.
"We've noted this affirmative move," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a media briefing present portion replying to a question connected reports that India volition region the reddish portion to velocity up issuance of concern visas to Chinese concern professionals.
Mr. Guo said that easing cross-border question "serves the communal interests of each parties".
"China volition support connection and consultation with India to further facilitate people-to-people exchange," helium said.
The determination was expected to springiness a fillip to commercialized and concern relations betwixt the 2 countries, facilitating question for Chinese businessmen to sojourn India.
In July, India resumed issuance of tourer visas to Chinese nationals aft a spread of implicit 5 years, successful a large determination to normalise relations betwixt the 2 countries. China besides started issuing visas to Indian tourists, including radical tourists.
The resumption of tourer visas was regarded arsenic a important move, arsenic the 2 countries started the normalisation process aft a frost successful bilateral ties since the subject standoff astatine Eastern Ladakh successful April 2020.
The suspension of each tourer and e-visas began with the COVID-19 pandemic and continued thereafter owed to the Ladakh standoff.
The Ladakh standoff led to a frost successful relations betwixt India and China. The relations were revived aft a gathering betwixt Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping connected the sidelines of the BRICS acme successful Kazan, Russia, past year.
The 2 leaders met again successful Tianjin this twelvemonth connected the sidelines of the SCO acme successful August, aft which the archetypal batch of Indian pilgrims visited Kailash Manasarovar successful Tibet, followed by the resumption of flights connecting assorted cities successful some countries aft implicit 5 years.
