Xi invites #NarendraModi to visit his hometown Xian in #China

Buoyed by his visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat, Chinese President Xi Jinping in a reciprocal gesture invited him to his hometown Xian, where the famous Buddhist monk Hiuen Tsang spent his last years after his return from India some 2,000 years ago.

Mr. Xi invited Modi on Wednesday to visit his hometown Xi’an, the famous tourist town which show cases the Terracotta warriors.

Mr. Xi said the seventh-century Chinese monk stayed in India for 16 years to seek Buddhist scriptures.