EAM Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Inaugurate India-China Film Week

Union External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar, who is presently on his maiden visit to China since having taken up the charge of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday (12 August) inaugurated the India-China Film Week, reports Asian News International (ANI).

Jaishankar along with his counterpart, Foreign Minister Wang Yi jointly inaugurated the event aimed at bolstering the people-to-people connect between the two nations, while giving a leg up to cultural exchange between the two nations.

The announcement about the event was made by Jaishankar and his counterpart Yi at the joint press conference addressed by them after the culmination of the second meeting of the high-level-mechanism devised between India and China.

The inauguration of the event marks the commemoration of 100 different activities to be organised in the upcoming months in the areas of film, broadcasting, education etc in a bid to boost the cultural ties between the people of the two South Asian neighbours.