{"id":151221,"date":"2025-08-05T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151221"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:45:38","slug":"china-hands-over-emergency-humanitarian-supplies-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/05\/china-hands-over-emergency-humanitarian-supplies-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"China hands over emergency humanitarian supplies to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Source: Xinhua<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250805\/dc48c49c12574169abffd083a2d8af1e\/W6MNDPuuALHf6JGh.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong (L) hands over emergency humanitarian supplies to Sri Lanka&#8217;s Defence Secretary Sampath Thuyacontha in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 5, 2025.&nbsp; (Xinhua\/Chen Dongshu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; China handed over emergency humanitarian supplies to Sri Lanka here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The handover included emergency supplies ranging from tents and beds to generators and water pumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These items aim to improve conditions for local communities displaced by flooding and help them respond more effectively to future natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the event, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong said that as a country with extensive experience in post-disaster reconstruction and risk management, China can share valuable expertise and advanced technologies with Sri Lanka to strengthen the South Asian country&#8217;s resilience in disaster prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;China is willing to explore more practical and in-depth cooperation with the Sri Lankan side in areas such as satellite meteorological image sharing, disaster early warning, and disaster prevention and mitigation,&#8221; Qi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Defence Secretary Sampath Thuyacontha expressed gratitude for China&#8217;s timely assistance and underscored the importance of such partnerships as climate change intensifies disaster risks in the region<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Xinhua Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong (L) hands over emergency humanitarian supplies to Sri Lanka&#8217;s Defence Secretary Sampath Thuyacontha in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 5, 2025.&nbsp; (Xinhua\/Chen Dongshu) COLOMBO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; China handed over emergency humanitarian supplies to Sri Lanka here on Tuesday. The handover included emergency supplies ranging from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151221","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=151221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}