India, May 4 -- India's Ambassador-designate to China Vikram Doraiswami on Sunday arrived in Beijing to take up his new assignment and was accorded a warm welcome by senior Chinese and Indian officials.

Deputy Director, Asia Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Li Jianbo and Charge d'Affairs of the Indian Embassy Angeline Premalatha, along with senior officials of the Indian mission, received Doraiswami when he arrived from Shanghai, officials said.

Doraiswami reached Shanghai on Saturday to take up his posting amid expectations that his appointment will add momentum to the current normalisation process of Sino-India relations. Doraiswami, a 1992-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, succeeds Pradeep Kumar Rawat. Before his postin...