Key quotes from President Xi's remarks in meeting with Indian PM Modi

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a candid and in-depth exchange of views on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi last week, and reached important consensus that China and India should be partners.

Xi said China has always viewed and developed its relations with India from a strategic height and with a long-term perspective, adding that the two countries can draw on each other's strengths, support one another, help each other succeed and pursue common development.

Here are some of Xi's key quotes on the steady and long-term development of China-India relations.