On November 2-3, 2019, the Second International Conference on the Sino-Indian Border Issues in New Circumstances organized by the Center for South Asian Studies at Fudan University to the vigorous endorsement by the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China was convened at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Professor ZHANG Jiadong, Director of Center for South Asian Studies, Fudan University presided at the opening ceremony. Professor WU Xinbo, Director of the Center for American Studies and Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, Mr. WANG Xin, Division Chief of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, and Mr. TAN Chung, Professor at the University of Delhi addressed the inaugural plenary remarks.

　  T.C.A. Rangachari, Distinguished Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation & Former Director, East Asia Division, Ministry of External Affairs, India, Professor B.R. Deepak, Director of the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Manoranjan Mohanty, Distinguished Professor and Vice-President of the Council for Social Development at the University of Delhi, as well as delegates from Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi, Shanghai University, New York University, Shanghai attended the conference. Mr. WANG Jinfeng, Former Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in India, and representatives from the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Department for Asia-Pacific Security and Cooperation Studies, China Institute of International Studies, Sichuan University, Hainan Institute for World Watch,Tongji University, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and Fudan University presented attendance at the reverberating academic event.

　Grounded in the First International Conference on the Sino-Indian Border Issues, the proposed event extended gracious invitations to renowned experts and academics dedicated to international relations, history and religious studies, to exchange comprehensive, multivariated perspectives constituting a plurality of dynamics with subtlety, evolving around history, trends and visions for settling the Sino-Indian border issues. Participants accorded avenues of resolving Sino-Indian border issues on the basis of management and dispute resolution as China and India would continue to emerge.

 　In the concluding session, Professor ZHANG Jiadong conveyed the preliminary construal envisaged to the successively annual International Conference on the Sino-Indian Border Issues. 

(Preceding English Paragraphs by Mao Xiaojun)