When I was going home to India last year, I called up my mother to ask if she wanted anything from China.  ks5. When India had not opened up its markets to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now.  ks5uStill, her answer surprised me:"Green tea!"  kAs long as I can remember she didn't even drink Indian tea.  ks5u  I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses  ks5u  At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian. It was a strange country..   How things change! And how soon!s5uNow every town of any size seems to have a "China Market". And everyone is talking about China  ks5u  The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done. A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment and such a step would "work wonders as it did for China".   ks5u  But it's a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China,  ks5u  No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about US $15 billion for last year and US $20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments.  No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian century as the two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year,  ks5u  But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.   ks5u From the text, we can know that   _  .
The writer is a Chinese. The writer's mother loves China. The cooperation between China and India is improving. China will learn from India from many aspects.