India today said it plans to develop a tourist circuit tracing Chinese scholar Huen Tsang's travels during his nine-year stay in the country in the seventh century.

Plans are afoot to launch the tourist circuit to promote people-to-people contacts between the two nations, India's Ambassador to China Ashok K Kantha said during an interaction with a 100-member delegation of youths from India at the Indian Embassy here. India and China have already released an encyclopedia on their age-old cultural contacts, tracing back their history to over 2,000 years, starting from the visit of Huen Tsang (known as Xuan Zang in Chinese) to India in the 7th century to bring Buddhist scriptures to China.