The BRI, a pet initiative of President Xi, is aimed at promoting network of roads, ports and rail networks all over the world to spread China's influence.
The prime minister and the Chinese president walked along the banks of East Lake and also took a boat ride together as they decided to step up their personal rapport.
Modi also said the people of India felt proud that President Xi has twice received him out of the capital.
The summit is being seen as an effort by India and China to rebuild trust and improve ties that were hit by the 73-day-long Doklam standoff last year among other contentious issues.
The summit is being seen as an effort by India and China to rebuild trust and improve ties that were hit by the 73-day-long Doklam standoff last year.
'At the informal summit, the two leaders will have heart-to-heart discussions on overarching issues and try to build mutual trust'
"Terrorism is an enemy of the basic human rights: of life, peace and prosperity," Swaraj said.
Sushma in her address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Foreign Ministers meeting said that terrorism is an enemy of basic human rights.
The meeting, which comes after the Doklam standoff, is aimed at a working a new paradigm for the bilateral relations for the next 15 years.
This will be the fourth visit of Modi to China after he came to power in 2014.
However, there will be no bilateral meetings between Swaraj, Sitharaman with their Pakistani counterparts.
We have seen great strides in all-around cooperation, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said.
Doval's visit was 'part of regular high-level engagements between India and China', an Indian Embassy press release in Beijing said.
'The location was the central part of the southern pacific and most part of the Tiangong-1 was burnt up on the re-entry.'
This was Kim's first visit abroad as North Korea's leader and came ahead of his planned summit with Donald J Trump.
This is Kim's first overseas visit since he took over power in 2011 after his father's death.
India's envoy had said that stand-off in Doklam saying it happened because Beijing tried to alter the "status quo" which it should not have.
He called for delineation of the 3,488-km Line of Actual Control (LAC) which China has refused earlier.
China was the first country to export such sensitive equipment to Pakistan
The telephonic talk between Modi and Xi came a day after Modi congratulated Xi on Chinese social media.
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