Following are the highlights of the joint declaration issued after the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday. The two sides committed themselves to a ten-pronged strategy to enhance ties. They are:

1. Ensuring comprehensive development of bilateral relations.

• Hold regular summit-level meetings
• Open additional consulate general offices at Kolkata and Guangzhou.

2. Strengthening institutional linkages and dialogue mechanisms.

• Concerned ministries shall intensify exchanges under the existing dialogue mechanisms.

3. Consolidating commercial and economic exchanges.

• Endeavour to raise volume of bilateral trade to $40 billion (about Rs 90,000 crore) by 2010

4. Expanding all round mutually beneficial cooperation

• Agree to fully implement the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of oil and natural gas.
• Strengthen cooperation in the information and communication technology sector.
• Set-up expert-level mechanism to exchange flood season hydrological data.

5. Instilling mutual trust and confidence through defence cooperation.

• Fully implement provisions of MoU for exchanges and cooperation in the field of Defence signed on May 29, this year

6. Seeking early settlement of outstanding issues.

• Committed to resolve outstanding differences, including boundary through peaceful means in a fair, reasonable, mutually acceptable and proactive manner.
• Joint Working Group on the boundary issue to expedite work

7. Promoting trans-border connectivity and cooperation

• China to provide greater facilitation to Indian pilgrims for Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. Explore possibility of opening additional route.

8. Boosting cooperation in science and technology

• Expansion of civil nuclear cooperation.
• Strengthen cooperation in the use of space-based technologies.

9. Revitalising cultural ties and nurturing people-to-people exchanges.

• Organise 'Festival of India' in China and 'Festival of China' in India.
• Establish India-China Exchange Foundation.
• Launch new Educational Exchange Programme
• Organise the India-China Year of Friendship through Tourism in 2007.

10. Expanding cooperation on regional and international stage.

• Shall positively assess the trilateral dialogue mechanism among India, China and Russia [Images].
• Revitalise and broaden India-China dialogue mechanism on counter-terrorism.
• Share developmental experiences with other developing countries and the international community through two-part seminar in New Delhi [Images] and Beijing [Images].
• Strengthen cooperation in the World Trade Organisation.
• India to continue to abide by 'One China' policy.
• India reiterates its recognition of the Tibet [Images] Autonomous Region as part of China and not to allow Tibetans to engage in anti-China political activities in India.