{"id":137787,"date":"2023-10-20T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137787"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:20:01","slug":"xi-jinping-meets-with-sri-lankan-president-ranil-wickremesinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/10\/20\/xi-jinping-meets-with-sri-lankan-president-ranil-wickremesinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping Meets with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy China News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

On the morning of October 20, 2023, President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe who is in China to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation\u2002(BRF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xi Jinping pointed out that the Chinese and Sri Lankan people have enjoyed\u2002a time-honored\u2002friendship marked by mutual learning\u2002and mutual help, and\u2002have been partners for self-reliant development. Sri Lanka was one of the first countries that welcomed and joined the Belt and Road Initiative.\u2002China values its relations with\u2002Sri Lanka, and is ready\u2002to work with Sri Lanka to consolidate political mutual trust, advance\u2002high-quality Belt and Road\u2002cooperation, and\u2002promote new and steady\u2002progress\u2002in the China-Sri Lanka strategic cooperative partnership based on sincere mutual assistance and ever-lasting friendship, so as\u2002to\u2002bring greater benefits to\u2002the two peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xi Jinping emphasized that China firmly supports Sri Lanka\u2002in upholding strategic autonomy,\u2002and safeguarding national\u2002sovereignty, independence and dignity. China is ready\u2002to expand import of signature Sri Lankan products, and encourage Chinese enterprises to invest and do business in Sri Lanka to help the country\u2002realize economic transformation and upgrading and\u2002sustainable development. China hopes that Sri Lanka will provide an open and transparent business environment for Chinese enterprises. China will\u2002continue to provide assistance to Sri Lanka with no political strings attached, and help the country\u2002cope with difficulties affecting social life and people\u2019s\u2002livelihood. The two sides should make every effort to push forward the\u2002Colombo Port City and Hambantota comprehensive development project,\u2002making them flagship projects of China-Sri Lanka Belt and Road cooperation. China is happy to see Sri Lanka become a commercial center of the Indian Ocean. The two sides should step up coordination in international and regional affairs, oppose politicization of human rights issues and bloc confrontation, and safeguard the common interests of the two countries and fellow developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wickremesinghe congratulated China on successfully hosting the third BRF. Sri Lanka has attached great importance to and actively participated in the Belt and Road\u2002cooperation, and is optimistic about its potential and prospects. The development\u2002of the Belt and Road, especially the Maritime Silk Road, has greatly facilitated Sri Lanka’s economic and social development and is conducive to enhancing Sri Lanka’s unique influence in the region. Sri Lanka hopes to work more closely with China in the future, as\u2002China can be an important partner in Sri Lanka’s modernization. Sri Lanka firmly adheres to the one-China policy and hopes to learn from China’s experience in development. Sri Lanka welcomes Chinese enterprises\u2019 investment\u2002in the country,\u2002and is ready\u2002to provide them with an enabling business environment. Sri Lanka believes that the Indian Ocean should embrace openness, and is ready to strengthen communication with China on regional affairs and support the solidarity and cooperation\u2002among developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cai Qi and Wang Yi attended the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy China News On the morning of October 20, 2023, President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe who is in China to attend the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation\u2002(BRF). Xi Jinping pointed out that the Chinese and Sri Lankan people have enjoyed\u2002a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}