India and China on Monday decided to resume Kailash Mansarovar Yatra and agreed in principle to restore direct flights as the two sides announced several measures to "rebuild" bilateral ties over two-and-a-half months after their militaries completed disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh. The decisions were announced after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held wide-ranging talks with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong in Beijing.

The two sides also agreed to hold an early meeting of the India-China expert level mechanism to discuss resumption of provision of hydrological data and other cooperation pertaining to trans-border rivers, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The foreign secretary also met Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Liu Jianchao. Misri and Sun reviewed the state of India-China bilateral relations comprehensively and agreed to take certain people-centric steps to "stabilise and rebuild ties", the MEA said in a statement.