A team of People's Liberation Army of China will visit India to finalize plans for a joint military exercise that will be held later this year, according to the Indian media.
The PLA team will visit the headquarters of the Indian Army's Eastern Command in Kolkata this month.
This year's military exercise will be the first joint one between the two giant Asian countries in the last five years and it would be held in October-November, sources said.
Relationship between the two countries has been a little tense due to a series of incursions by the Chinese troops into Indian territories in the Indian region of Ladakh.
Several meetings between senior Indian and Chinese delegations have been held in New Delhi as well as Beijing to ease the escalating tensions over the border disputes in recent months.
The first edition of the joint military exercise was held in the Chinese southeastern city of Chengdu in 2007 and the second one hosted by New Delhi in the Indian city of Belgaum, December 2008.
Since then, the two sides failed to hold any joint exercise due to various reasons including Beijing's refusal to issue a proper visa to then Northern Army Commander Lt General B S Jaswal in 2010.
After China occupied Tibet in 1959, the two countries have shared a 3488 km long disputed border, which was the cause of a short but bloody war in 1962.
Since then, the two sides have shared uneasy military ties with a series of border talks failing to yield much result.
As a result of China's frequent incursions into its territories in the north and north eastern regions, New Delhi recently decided to deploy around 40,000 additional soldiers along the Indo-Tibetan border to counter Beijing's military strength.
