kolkata the culture ministry of china is helping rabindra bharati university to set up a gallery on rabindranath and china on the eve of the visit of chinese prime minister li keqiangs visit to delhi the gallery would help deepening sinoindian friendship consul general of china in kolkata zhang lizhnog said on tuesday the chinese government would donate rmb800000 to establish a theme gallery at tagore house on the jorasanko campus of rabindra bharati university it will highlighte rabindranaths contribution and historical position in cultural exchanges between india and china the gallery to be launched on wednesday would have eight rooms seven on different themes india and china in ancient days china dwarakanath and debendranath china study china in rabindranaths writings and works xu beihongs studio tagores visit to china in 1924 and tagore studies in china exhibits in the gallery would be provided jointly by the chinese and indian sides zhang said the shanghai archive bureau would offer 23 panels to reflect tagores visit to china in 1924 beijing university professor wei liming has helped select 500 books in chinese both translations of tagore works and research papers on tagore 300 of them has already arrived in the city the gallery would be a permanent exhibition tagores works had an extensive influence in china people of china treated him as a literary giant zhang said we are friendly neighbours having timehonoured exchanges in culture and literature minor irritants like the recent border dispute in ladakh should not overshadow the mutual respect for each other a peaceful resolution of the dispute has been in the overall interest of the two countries he said