Jia is due to meet tomorrow with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and also visit the cities of Agra and Hyderabad before leaving on Thursday, according to the Indian foreign ministry.
Yesterday, around 200 Tibetan students rallied through central New Delhi, waving Tibetan flags and chanting slogans, to protest Jia’s visit.
The young people marched to the venue of an international trade fair in the Indian capital, holding up banners urging buyers to boycott Chinese goods.
India has hosted Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama since he fled Lhasa in 1959 during a failed uprising against Chinese rule, although New Delhi recognises Beijing’s control over the Himalayan territory.
The two countries fought a war in 1962 over their unmarked border between Tibet and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
