Shanghai — India’s Consul General in Shanghai, Pratik Mathur, met Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng at the inauguration of the SCO Cooperation Centre for Metabolic Diseases in Shanghai, reaffirming steps to deepen India-China engagement. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the centre’s opening, which was established under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and was highlighted in a post by the Consulate General of India in Shanghai on X.
Mayor Gong welcomed recent improvements in bilateral relations, noting momentum after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to China for the Tianjin SCO Summit in August and pointing to the widely welcomed resumption of direct air links between Shanghai and Indian cities. Consul General Mathur expressed gratitude to senior Chinese leaders, extended India’s best wishes for continued cooperation, and said that the bilateral progress would also support collaboration within multilateral forums such as the SCO and BRICS.
The Indian side noted that India will host the BRICS Leaders’ Summit later this year and expressed confidence that closer bilateral engagement will be mutually beneficial across regional and global platforms. The meeting was shared on X with the message “United for a Healthy Future,” underscoring the focus on health cooperation alongside broader diplomatic engagement.
Earlier, at the SCO summit in Tianjin, Prime Minister Modi laid out India’s guiding approach—reform, perform and transform—and urged members to join India’s development journey. He described India’s vision for the SCO as organized around three pillars: security, connectivity and opportunity, stressing the need for stability for growth, India’s connectivity initiatives for Afghanistan and Central Asia, and a proposal to create a Civilisational Dialogue Forum to highlight member countries’ cultural ties.
This report is based on material published by the Consulate General of India in Shanghai and related coverage; the publisher assumes no responsibility for independent verification.
