Under the memorandum of understanding, ICBC will provide IndiGo, India's largest airline by market share, with financing for the planes through either a sale and lease back or commercial lending deal, the statement quoted IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh as saying.

The announcement comes on the day Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in India, where the two countries are expected to sign trade and investment deals worth billions of dollars.

(Reporting by Tommy Wilkes; Editing by Sunil Nair)