Shimla, Aug. 24 -- The Himachal Pradesh government's "consistent efforts" to resume trade with China through Shipki-La (Kinnaur) have yielded encouraging results, officials said on Sunday.

The government of China has agreed in principle to the proposal during the recent visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to India, a statement by the State government said. This breakthrough was made possible due to the personal intervention of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who had written to the Union government urging revival of the historic Indo-Tibetan trade route, added the statement.

Acting on this, the Union government formally took up the matter with China, leading to a consensus to restart the trade. The state government would now...