Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday left for China to attend the SCO summit after wrapping up a two-day visit to Japan. PM Modi enplaned for China's Tianjin for where he will attend the SCO Summit from August 31 to September 1.
“A highly productive visit to Japan concludes. It has charted the way forward for deeper India-Japan cooperation,” posted MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on X.
During his visit, India and Japan firmed up 13 key agreements and declarations and announced the launch of several transformative initiatives.
The new measures to further expand the India-Japan special strategic and global partnership were unveiled following summit talks between Prime Minister Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba.
Japan set an investment target of 10 trillion yen (approximately Rs 60,000 crores) in India over a decade and the two sides sealed a raft of big-ticket pacts, including a framework for defence ties and a 10-year roadmap to largely boost economic partnership.
Other agreements signed include an economic security architecture to promote supply chain resilience in strategic sectors such as semiconductors, clean energy, telecom, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals and new and emerging technologies.
The prime minister, who landed in Tokyo on Friday, said India-Japan cooperation is crucial for global peace and stability, and both sides have laid a strong foundation for a "new and golden chapter" in the partnership.
The 10-year roadmap focuses on significantly expanding overall economic ties. It comprised several key pillars for boosting engagement that included economic security, mobility, ecological sustainability, technology and innovation, health, people-to-people exchanges and engagements between Indian states and Japanese prefectures.
The two sides also signed an implementing arrangement for the Chandrayaan-5 mission, a joint exploration of the polar region of the moon by the space agencies of the two countries.
On Saturday, Modi met governors of 16 Japanese prefectures in Tokyo and called for strengthening state-prefecture cooperation under the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba also took a symbolic bullet train ride to Sendai, highlighting India-Japan friendship and meeting Indian train drivers under training.
After that, PM also travelled with Ishiba to Sendai in the Japanese prefecture of Miyagi to visit a semiconductor plant, Tokyo Electron Factory, highlighting semiconductor a key area for India-Japan cooperation.
“We went to the Training Room, Production Innovation Lab and interacted with top officials of the company. The semiconductor sector is a key area for India-Japan cooperation. In the last few years, India has made many strides in this sector. A lot of youngsters are getting associated with it as well. We seek to continue this momentum in the times to come,” posted PM Modi on X.
During his two-day visit to China, Modi will attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tianjin on August 31 and September 1.
The summit of the 10-member bloc is regarded as significant and most consequential from the point of view of India-China relations in the current context of a sudden downturn in India-US ties after Trump imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Indian exports.
This will be Modi’s first visit to China in seven years.
With inputs from agencies
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