CPN (Maoist Center) leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha has flown to China at the invitation of Communist Party of China.

Shrestha was invited for a visit by the International Department of the Chinese communist party. His visit comes immediately after his party Chairman and PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal returned from India where he visited the Chinese president and Indian PM.

Sources close to the leader said political visits were on the cards during the trip.