Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] on Saturday met Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing [ Images ] to review the entire gamut of bilateral ties and find ways to move forward on pending issues, including the vexed boundary question.

Dr Singh, who arrived in Beijing on Thursday after a three-day visit to Japan [ Images ], met Hu on the sidelines of the seventh Asia-Europe meeting summit.

The prime minister's meeting with Hu, also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China, was the second high-level contact between the leadership of India [ Images ] and China in a month.

Dr Singh earlier had a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on September 24 on the margins of the UN General Assembly session in New York.

New Delhi [ Images ] acknowledges that the boundary problem is "complex" and cannot be resolved overnight. "There is no simple technical fix to this problem," says Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon [ Images ].

The prime minister may use the occasion to clear doubts in Beijing over growing Indo-Japanese ties after Dr Singh signed a landmark security pact with his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso.

"I have explained on several occasions both in India as well as in China and abroad that I sincerely believe that there is no competition between India and China," Dr Singh had said in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Dr Singh and Hu are also expected to discuss cooperation in a multilateral fora on challenges posed by global economic turmoil, energy security and climate change.