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Atal Bihari Vajpayee, external affairs minister in the Janata Party government led by Prime Minister Morarji Desai, landed at Shanghai airport on February 16, 1979. The visit was made possible by the carefully calibrated normalisation process initiated by Desai in 1977-78.

Here Vajpayee poses with the Chinese officials who formally received him.

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