Chief of China’s People Liberation Army, General Chen Bingde has arrived in Kathmandu on a three day official visit. He is leading a high level military delegation. Gen. Bingde will hold bilateral talks with his Nepali counterpart Gen. Chhatra Man Singh Gurung and sign memoranda of understanding this evening. He is expected to announce technical assistance worth 1.42 billion rupees during his goodwill visit. The delegation will call upon President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal and Defence Minister Bishnu Poudel on Thursday. This is one of the highest military visit from China in a decade. Vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission and Minister for National Defence of China, Chi Haotian, had visited Nepal in February 2001.