{"id":77145,"date":"2018-05-04T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77145"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:11:26","slug":"sri-lankas-standard-chartered-gears-up-for-more-business-under-chinas-one-belt-one-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/04\/sri-lankas-standard-chartered-gears-up-for-more-business-under-chinas-one-belt-one-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Standard Chartered gears up for more business under China\u2019s One Belt One Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Colombo, May 4 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Standard Chartered Bank, on Friday said it is setting up a \u2018China Desk\u2019 at its branch in Sri Lanka\u2019s capital Colombo to encourage more Chinese companies to invest in the island under the One Belt One Road initiative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Sam Xu, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered in China, who led a delegation of customer relations officers to Sri Lanka, said\u00a0the markets which all fall within the Belt and Road Initiative are all eligible, important markets which have meaningful bilateral trade relationships with China.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Standard Chartered gears up for more business under China\u2019s One Belt One Road\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Standard-Chartered.jpg?fit=701%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Standard Chartered gears up for more business under China\u2019s One Belt One Road\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said the Sri Lankan economy will also benefit under this initiative and the Standard Chartered was encouraging more business from China to invest\u00a0 in the country under the One Belt One Road.<\/p>\n<p>Xu said the Chinese Desk which will soon be set up will help Chinese officials who are still new to Sri Lanka to communicate better with a banker who speaks Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>He said this will also help avoid misunderstandings.<\/p>\n<p>Several big Chinese state-run groups like China Harbhour Engineering Company Limited, China Merchants Port and AVIC have already invested in the country, benefiting Sri Lanka\u2019s infrastructure and economic development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Standard Chartered Bank, on Friday said it is setting up a \u2018China Desk\u2019 at its branch in Sri Lanka\u2019s capital Colombo to encourage more Chinese companies to invest in the island under the One Belt One Road initiative. Sam Xu, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77145","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=77145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}