Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to visitt he historic city of Mahabalipuram in Chennai for his second informal summitwith Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week. India is yet to formally announce the dates of the meeting.

China will reportedly host Pakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan on October 8, which comes ahead of the summit between PM Modi and Jinping.

This will be Khan`s third visit to China after assumingoffice. Xi`s visit to India comes at a time when China has expressed concernover the reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir and termed the decision toabrogate Article 370 "unilateral".

Beijing had also asked the United Nations Security Councilon the behest of Pakistan to hold a closed-door meeting over Kashmir.

From early this year, India and China were in touch for thesecond informal summit between Modi and Xi. In August, External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar had also visited China to prepare the ground for thesecond informal summit between the two leaders.