NEW DELHI, June 9 -- Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday met here with Ajit Doval, national security adviser to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

During the meeting, Wang said that China and India are important neighbors to each other, and the two countries are both large, developing countries with significant influence in the world.

The development and revitalization of China and India is an inevitable historical trend, which is also conducive to a more peaceful, more harmonious and more balanced world. In this process, the two countries are natural partners, said Wang.

China and India enjoy far more common interests than differences and that common interests will keep increasing in future, he said.

Wang said China is willing to work with India to grasp the opportunity to increase mutual trust, expand cooperation and foster a closer development partnership.

China is also ready to cooperate with India in properly handling border issue, push the two countries' strategic cooperative partnership to a new level and realize common development and shared prosperity, he said.

All these are in conformity with the fundamental interests of the two peoples, the development strategies of the two governments and the dreams to realize national rejuvenation of the two countries, he added.

Doval said that the development of China is of great global significance, as well as special importance to India.

He said that the two countries are maintaining good cooperation in all fields and at the same time both shouldering the responsibility as big powers of safeguarding world peace and stability.

Doval said India highly appreciates the positive messages of deepening bilateral ties coming from China after the coming to power of the new Indian government.

India and China should send a clear signal to the world that the two countries are partners rather than adversaries, through enhancing comprehensive cooperation, maintaining peace and tranquillity at border areas, and working together for a more fair and reasonable international order, he added.