Welcome IT professionals from India: China

China on Monday lauded the positive contribution of the Indians, particularly the IT professionals, in the development and progress of the country.

Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, Shanghai, told the visiting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari that the Indian community in Shanghai was very enterprising making a positive contribution to the rapid growth of the city as one of the biggest commercial hubs in the world.

?We welcome IT professionals from India because they are very good?, Xuexiang said during a meeting the BJP president and his party delegation.

There are a large number of Indian professionals working in different fields in shanghai and other parts of China.

Gadkari appreciated the ?phenomenal? progress Shanghai has made in the last few decades as one of the most advanced cities in the world.

He said he would tell the Shanghai success story to all the BJP chief ministers and request them to emulate the Shanghai model of development and growth.

Earlier, speaking at a reception hosted in his honour by the NRI community in Shanghai, Gadkari said young Indian professionals were doing a wonderful job abroad and the country was proud of them.

He asked them to maintain links with India and help in which ever manner they can for the progress and development of their motherland.

Gadkari is accompanied by party general secretaries, Thawarchand Gehlot and Vijay Goel, joint organizing secretary Saudan Singh, secretaries Arti Mehra and Laxman Kova and political associate Vinay Sasrabuddhe.