"Our friendship and cooperation is not only of bilateral importance but exerts beneficial impact regionally and globally," Singh said in a message published in the China Daily, the communist nation's leading English language newspaper.
"There is a growing feeling in the world that rapid economic development of both India and China will be beneficial to both Asia and the world," he said.
The supplement carried a number of articles on Sino-Indian relations, right from the 'Hindi-Chini Bhai Bahi' era of Jawaharlal Nehru.