Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will propose to establish the world's biggest Free Trade Area between China and India during his talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week.
A Sino-Indian free trade agreement is expected to be high on the agenda during Premier Wen Jiabao's four-day trip to India beginning on Saturday, a media report said on Friday.
An FTA agreement is likely to be one of the topics of negotiations to improve and facilitate bilateral economic co-operation between the two countries,
China Daily reported.
China proposed an FTA with India during State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan's visit to New Delhi last October. If the Sino-Indian FTA comes into being, it will cover the largest number of people in the world, it noted.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry indicated on Thursday that Wen would discuss the FTA issue with the Indian side during talks.