India, Aug. 28 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on August 31 in China on the sidelines of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin.

It has been almost one year since the two leaders met, the last meeting being in October last year, after which India and China had announced a breakthrough in negotiations to resolve their military standoff along the Line of Actual Control.

It was earlier reported that PM Modi will hold talks with Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and several Central Asian leaders while in China for the SCO summit.

Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Xi Jinping in China, in his first visit to the country since ties between ...