China's first lady Peng Liyuan poses for a group photo with students during a visit to the Tagore International School in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: PTI

China's first lady Peng Liyuan poses for a group photo with students during a visit to the Tagore International School in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: PTI China's first lady Peng Liyuan poses for a group photo with students during a visit to the Tagore International School in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: PTI

China's First Lady Peng Liyuan on Thursday mistook a group of students from the Northeast as Chinese only to be told by them that they were Indians.

As Peng entered the Tagore International School, she was greeted by students wearing Indian traditional costumes.

She noticed a group of students, including few from the Northeast who greeted her "Ni Hao" (How are you?).

Mistaking the them as Chinese, she stopped and asked one of them, "Ni sh? zhongguo ren" (Are you Chinese?).

"Bu. Woh shi Indu ren. (No, I am an Indian)," Albert Ginsangmuam K (12), a class VII student, responded confidently.

Hailing from Manipur, Albert, wearing a kurta, said he was nervous about the first interaction with Peng and he had not expected her to speak to him.

"I know a bit of Chinese, but I was a bit nervous. What if I made a mistake? What would have the school said?"

Albert, along with many of his classmates, has taken up Chinese language course.