President Patil`s visit fruitful and successful: China

Beijing, Jun 1 (PTI) China on Tuesday termed the just
concluded visit of India's President Pratibha Patil here as a
"fruitful and successful" one, saying it would "definitely"
help promote development of bilateral ties between the two
Asian giants.
"I believe it was a fruitful and successful visit,"
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said at a media
briefing here on Tuesday when asked about the Chinese
assessment of President Patil's six-day state visit, first by
Indian head of state in a decade.
Ma said Patil held talks with Chinese leaders on major
issues relating to both the countries and exchanged views.
"They (Patil and Chinese leaders) reached consensus on
many major issues. I believe the visit will definitely promote
further development of relations between the two countries,"
he said.
During her visit starting from May 26, Patil spent
three days in Beijing during which she held talks with her
Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on
a host of issues.
She later flew to Loyang where she dedicated the first
Indian-styled Buddhist temple in China built close to the
famous White Horse temple complex there.
She later flew to China's commercial hub Shanghai
where she visited Indian and Chinese pavilions at Shanghai
Expo and unveiled a bust of poet Rabindranath Tagore at a
street in Shanghai commemorating his visit to the city.PTI