China on Friday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned visit to the Tianjin summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to be held later this month.After a gap of over seven years, Prime Minister Modi is expected to travel to China later this month to attend the annual summit of the SCO, people familiar with the matter in Delhi said this week.
China welcomes PM Modi
China welcomes Prime Minister Modi for the SCO Tianjin Summit, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said while answering a query on reports that Modi’s visit to China to attend the Tianjin summit.“We believe that with the concerted effort of all parties, the Tianjin summit will be a gathering of solidarity, friendship and fruitful results, and the SCO will enter a new stage of high-quality development featuring greater solidarity, coordination, dynamism and productiveness,” he said.
China will host the SCO Summit in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1.Leaders of over 20 countries, including all member states of the SCO and heads of 10 international organisations, will attend relevant events, Guo said.The SCO Tianjin Summit will be the largest summit in scale since the establishment of the SCO, he said.
China floods
At least 17 people have died and 33 others are missing in torrents and landslides in China in the last 48 hours, official media here reported on Friday.President Xi Jinping has urged all-out search and rescue efforts, and flood prevention and disaster relief work after mountain torrents hit northwest Gansu province on Thursday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
At least 10 people were killed and 33 others listed missing in mountain torrents in Gansu province, it said.In another incident, seven people died and seven others injured following a rain-triggered landslide in Guangzhou, the capital of China’s southern Guangdong province, on Wednesday, local officials said on Friday.The landslide occurred in Dayuan Village in Guangzhou’s Baiyun District, trapping 14 people and damaging multiple houses, according to the district’s emergency management bureau.The injured were sent to the hospital.