Prachanda, who left for Beijing ostensibly to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics a day after he managed to form a partial Cabinet, said he discussed about peace process, development and economic situation with Chinese leaders, “but no agreement or understandings were signed as it was an unofficial visit”.

“My first visit will be India,” Prachanda told journalists at the airport with a message that India did not need worry about his visit to the north.

A day after he became the Prime Minister, Prachanda said that signing Kosi agreement with India was a historic blunder and that he would take it up with the international community the damage the India-built dam had caused.

“Chinese leaders felt satisfied with the recent political change in Nepal,” Prachanda said. While the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao hosted a banquet for his Nepali counterpart, Prachanda also had a one-on-one meeting with President Hu Jintao.

He said the Chinese were interested in more investments, but did not quite divulge which areas they were interested in. He however, said there would be more visits, indicating that he will undertake yet another visit — a formal and official one — after he goes to Delhi.

Prachanda is the second Prime Minister in Nepal to pay the first visit to China. Tankaprasad Acharya had undertaken such a trip some 52 years ago, and had apparently declined Nehru’s request to first visit Delhi saying: “I have already accepted the first invitation I got.”

Prachanda has a standing invitation from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to be his “guest at the earliest convenient date”, but given India’s anger over Prachanda first visiting Beijing, it is not yet known whether the invitation still stands.

Maoist leaders including C P Gajurel, in charge of the party’s foreign affairs, however, maintain that the Beijing visit was purely in connection with the Olympic concluding ceremony and had no other signficance.