Mr Singh will meet President Hu Jintao, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and the Communist Party leader Wu Bangguo.

Mr Singh's trip to China, the first by an Indian prime minister in nearly five years, will see him visit several venues featuring this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, before he attends talks with Chinese leaders on Monday and Tuesday.

The visit comes at a time when trade between India and China is booming and officials said the bilateral talks are expected to focus on surpassing the US$40 billion target the two countries agreed to reach by 2010.

Their talks are expected to focus on territorial disputes and increasing bilateral trade, worth US$37billion.

In December, the powerful states held a landmark joint military exercise. The war games in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan, the first of their kind between the two largest armies in the world, involved just over 100 soldiers from each side.