On December 3, 2012, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met in the Foreign Ministry with India's National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon.

Yang said that this year is the "year of China-India friendship and cooperation" and with the joint efforts of both sides, bilateral relations have achieved fruitful results. As big developing countries, China and India should carry out friendly cooperation and strengthen coordination for common development, which is in line with the fundamental interests of the two sides. China is willing to work with India to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and make planning together for the development of bilateral relations for the next year, so as to push for sustained, stable and healthy development of the Sino-Indian strategic cooperative partnership.

Menon said that in recent years, the relations between India and China have been developing continuously. India attaches great importance to relations with China and is willing to keep close high-level exchanges with China, strengthen dialogue and exchanges, deepen pragmatic cooperation and push bilateral ties to a higher level.