Sri Lanka hopes to accelerate Chinese projects, says PM
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government will work with China to accelerate ongoing projects and attract more Chinese investment in order to promote economic and social development in the island country.
In a recent discussion with Chinese ambassador to Sri Lanka Cheng Xueyuan, Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka had always strongly supported the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese embassy in Colombo said yesterday.
The prime minister added that his government attached great importance to mega-projects co-operation with China, especially the Hambantota Port, the Industrial Park in southern Sri Lanka and the Colombo Port City in the capital.
Ambassador Cheng reiterated that China wished to implement the important consensus reached by leaders of the two countries to actively push forward the practical co-operation under the Belt and Road Initiative, so as to bring tangible benefits to the two countries and peoples.
China is willing to work with Sri Lanka to push forward the latter’s economic and social development, and promote a new type of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win co-operation, the ambassador said.
(Source: IANS)
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Here we go again
to do so The UNP should go it a lone as this will have the support of over 130 MPs and win the 2020 parliamentary elections on the basis of burning coal which all countries are doing and getting direct foreign investment, which cannot be done with Sirisen’s avoidance of coal fueled BOT coal projects and his addictions to solar power and NLG which causing us the people several hundred Million US $ loss
If ranil is as smart as he claims to be then he should get the the Chinese involved in something original like a highway going going across from the west coast to the east coast cutting travel time from about 10 hours to about three hours.
Further most of the rai that precipatates through out the year plays havoc with agriculture with too much rain leading to floods or not enough to lead to droughts and famine.
The mega project that involved a case study on the mahaweli projects for they are getting silted and these projects need to be serviced and provide tap water for the rural population.
If ranil can get these projects implemented then and only then he can be considered worthy of holding the true leader
That’s the way to go.
The US and Europe are broke and are unable to assist any country.
We only get morsels from the table such as GSP and that too, with severe strings attached like human rights, reconciliation and stupid things.
The Chinese do charge heavier interest but they are only ones in the world with cash to spare.
I’ll tell you something. China will take much more than what it gives. So China will take advantage from our senile brain damaged politicians.