2019年CRI Indian official on President Xi's visit to India

 

President Xi Jinping will start his visit to India. Earlier, an official from India's embassy in Beijing says he is looking forward to bilateral¹ cooperation in more areas than economy.

Prasanna Shrivastava is the political counselor² at the Embassy of India in China. At last month's China-India Youth Roundtable hosted by China Radio International in Beijing, he said that ties between China and India have been rapidly developing in recent years.

"We have a relationship which is really vast and multifaceted. It has been on an up-swing in recent years, and I see that the sky is the limit for this relationship. The two leaders are very focused and have been keeping quite a close contact and these things are very important to move this relationship forward."

He also believed that the people of both countries have a strong desire to move their bilateral ties forward, and that India's cultural icons³ like Bollywood films and yoga can have a role to play in helping⁴ Chinese people to better understand India.

"Well, I think the expectations are there on both sides. We see strong desire on both sides among the people to take our relationship forward, kind of, if we talk about the people-to-people, the kind of reception Bollywood movies get here, the kind of popularity yoga has here, it's reflective about the curiosity and appetite in the Chinese society to learn and appreciate more about India. I can reassure⁵ you that the same kind of desire is on the other side as well to know about China."

Currently, over 20,000 young adults from India are studying in China, and nearly 2,000 Chinese are studying in India. Shrivastava said China and India are two populous⁶ countries with a combined population of more than 2.5 billion. However, the two sides have only about one million exchanges. Much work still needs to be done to promote exchanges between the two peoples.

Bilateral trade between China and India was worth 95 billion U.S. dollars last year, up 13 percent on the previous year. Shrivastava added that the two countries should not only focus on strengthening their economic ties, but also their cooperation in other areas.

"Both India and China are neighbors. They are both big and populous countries, and both emerging countries. So there are a lot of areas of commonalities where both countries can work together. Many of issues and areas in economy to developmental goals - all of those areas are right there on the table for the two countries to learn from each other."

He also signaled that the two countries could strengthen their cooperation in a growing number of multilateral organizations.

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 counselor   

n.顾问，法律顾问

参考例句：

• The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
• Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。

3 icons   

n.偶像( icon的名词复数 )；（计算机屏幕上表示命令、程序的）符号，图像

参考例句：

• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 reassure   

v.使放心，使消除疑虑

参考例句：

• This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
• The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。

6 populous   

adj.人口稠密的，人口众多的

参考例句：

• London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
• China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。