India ready to help build smart cities in China

BEIJING: Indian IT companies wish to be a partner in China's drive to build global cities, S Jaishankar, India's ambassador, told Chinese entrepreneurs at a software conference in Nanjing city on Tuesday.

India is increasingly importing Chinese equipment, he said. "The focus is now on China reciprocating this trend and focusing on leveraging Indian IT capabilities," the ambassador said at a India-China software cooperation seminar.

China is the "missing portfolio" for $76 billion Indian IT industry, which has managed to book contracts in 70 countries speaking 35 different languages, he said.

"An IT relationship will make Chinese companies more efficient and greatly enhance their connectivity with the Indian economy," he said at the 7th China (Nanjing) International Software product expo, which ran concurrently along with the India-China seminar.