A one-on-one meeting, a tour of one of the best known museums of China, dinner by a picturesque lake side followed by talks with top officials would mark the two-day unprecedented informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping beginning here tomorrow.
Billed as ‘heart-to-heart’ summit aimed at evolving consensus between the two leaders to look for solutions to some of the most contentious issues including the border dispute bedevilling the two countries, Modi and Xi will begin their marathon one-on-one talks after lunch tomorrow.
They will initially visit the Hubei Provincial Museum here which has a large number of state-level historic and cultural relics.
It will be followed by talks between the two leaders accompanied by six top officials from each side. The two will have one-on-one dinner at the famous East Lake, a favourite holiday destination of China’s revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.
On Saturday, they will resume their one-on-one interaction at 10 a.M (local time) with walks by the lake side, boat ride and wind up their talks over lunch, official sources here said.