NEW DELHI: The government’s premier think tank, NITI Aayog , may consider sweeping land and labour reforms at the proposed coastal economic zones as its replicates the Chinese model of growth for boosting India’s manufacturing sector and giving push to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India.The Aayog has sought wide ranging cooperation from its Chinese counterpart — National Development and Reform Commission — to help develop coastal economic zones in India, along lines of Shenzen, Guangzhou and others, at the recently concluded Strategic Economic Dialogue. Besides, the two countries signed statement of intent on cooperation in areas of infrastructure development, IT, urbanization, and energy.“Those land and labour reforms which we could not implement countrywide, we can replicate in coastal states on a smaller scale, provided states have the appetite,” said NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya at the briefing on outcome of the fourth edition of the dialogue between India and China.India is eyeing multi-national companies in China across sectors like electronics, textiles and other to shift their manufacturing base to India in the wake of rising wages in China and also the excess capacities being created there in areas of steel and aluminum.“For India, we will get a set of companies that have not just capital but also technology as well as well-established market, making it easier for them to export from India,” Panagariya added.At the two-day dialogue, government representatives of the coastal states of India gave presentations to over 220 Chinese delegates on the opportunities in the coastal regions of India across sector like manufacturing, infrastructure, urbanization and energy.According to the minutes of the 4th SED, NITI Aayog has proposed closer interaction between Aayog and NDRC on understanding China’ huge success in development of coastal manufacturing zones and learn from the above success. “Both sides agreed to adopt new themes of closer cooperation on coastal manufacturing zone development between the two sides during next one year and encouraged enterprises to grasp opportunities and seek early harvest projects in manufacturing and industrial areas like infrastructure, automobile, energy, electronics,” it added.India is considering a two-pronged strategy to push its exports as well as reduce its burgeoning annual trade deficit of about $53 billion with China. One it is wooing companies in China to shift bases to India in its proposed coastal economic zones and through these companies it would want to tap the export markets as India’s share to global exports of $ 18 trillion remains miniscule at 1.7%.