On December 4, 2024, Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Liu Jinsong met with founder of the Forum for a New South Asia and renowned scholar Sudheendra Kulkarni, who is in China for the press conference of the Global Development Report 2024. Both sides held the view that the bilateral meeting between President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the margins of the BRICS Summit in Kazan is of significant importance, marking an important opportunity for China-India relations to carry on from a new starting point. The two sides should carefully nurture and strengthen the momentum of improvement and development in bilateral relations, and promote communication and dialogue between the two ancient civilizations across various levels, especially in academic and cultural exchanges. The two sides should properly handle differences, increase mutual trust and dispel misgivings, implement the important common understandings reached between the leaders of the two countries, and inject more rationality, stability and certainty into the peace and development of Asia and the world at large.