BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday left for his maiden state visit to India.
 
Hu, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, left Vientiane for New Delhi after a two-day state visit to Laos, the Xinhua news agency reported.
 
Hu had attended the 14th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting on November 17-19 in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam.
 
Laos is the second leg of Hu's four-nation tour, which will also take him to India for a state visit from November 20 to 23 and in Pakistan from November 23 to 26.