India, Aug. 31 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China and will meet President Xi Jinping on Sunday ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin.

The PM will be in Tianjin, northern China, from August 31 to September 1, for the SCO summit.

"Landed in Tianjin, China. Looking forward to deliberations at the SCO Summit and meeting various world leaders," Modi said in a post on X on Saturday.

The meeting is scheduled for around noon local time (9:30 AM IST) with a 40-minute time slot and comes amid a thaw in relations between India and China.

It is also PM Modi's first visit to China in seven years and the second meeting between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in ten months. The last meeting between the...