China promises to provide adequate safety to Indians

NEW DELHI: China today promised to provide adequate safety to Indians on its soil and said the recent incident in Yiwu will not be allowed to influence age-old friendly ties between the two countries.

Giving this assurance to BJP MP Tarun Vijay, Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan promised his best efforts to send back home the two traders who were recently attacked by locals in Yiwu city.

"We are working to improve relations. India and China are engines to the world economy and our horizons of cooperation are too big. We will not allow such incidents to influence our age-old civilizational ties", a release from the BJP MP, who is also a spokesperson of the party, said quoting Yan.

Observing that such incidents vitiate the atmosphere and discourage Indians from visiting China, Vijay suggested that the Chinese govt should think to have special India-China Friendship Help Centers in major cities there for people in distress.

To this suggestion, the Ambassador said this is a very constructive suggestion and he will send it to the government for consideration, the release said.

Vijay conveyed to the diplomat BJP's hopes that the Chinese will be more cautious on such sensitive issues encouraging more people-to-people contact between the two countries and further strengthen India-China ties.