China and India should be partners in pursuing their respective dreams and important opportunities for growing each other's economies, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a press conference on Friday.

He said 2018 was a year of great significance for Sino-Indian relations, and the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Wuhan, Hubei province, has created a new model for interaction between the two sides.

Wang said the current priority is to see that the strategic understanding of the two countries' leaders trickles down to the people and becomes the common view.

"We must make our due contributions to Asia's revitalization and prosperity," he said.

Wang emphasized that China will work with India to comprehensively strengthen cooperation and people-to-people ties, which are of vital importance so that "our friendship and cooperation will surge ahead like the Yangtze River and the Ganges".