Visiting Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department head Liu Jianchao held a meeting with CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the latter’s residence in Khumaltar on Monday.

He arrived in Kathmandu at a time when Beijing had been expressing concern over the growing anti-China activities in Nepal in recent times.

China sent Liu as an envoy to unite all the Communist parties.

He paid courtesy calls on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur and Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka on Sunday.

Similarly, the Chinese leader also extended an invitation to Prime Minister Deuba to visit China.

Leading an eight-member delegation, Liu arrived in Kathmandu on a four-day visit to Nepal on Sunday.