China and Sri Lanka to build the port city of Colombo

5:00 pm local time on the 16th, Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan car ride towards the motorcycle team and cavalry escort the presidential palace, on both sides along the promenade, drums and gongs, trumpets loud, Sri Lanka youth danced traditional health mention dance.

In the presidential palace entrance, Xi and Peng Liyuan couple warmly welcomed by President Rajapaksa. After the welcoming ceremony, the two leaders held talks. Rajapaksa said that after a lapse of 28 years, China's President visit Sri Lanka again, has important historical significance.

Xi stressed that China is ready to Slovenia one, seize the opportunity, planning cooperation, and promote the strategic cooperative partnership and Sri Lanka go go real deep, to better benefit the two peoples. The Chinese side is willing to take in the 21st century maritime Silk Road as an opportunity to strengthen cooperation with the Sri Lankan operations in port construction, port development and construction of industrial parks, marine economy, marine safety and other areas to explore and identify pilot projects to achieve an early harvest. I hope the two sides to accelerate free trade negotiations for the early completion of a free trade zone in Sri Lanka. China to encourage more Chinese enterprises to actively participate in Sri Lanka industrial parks, economic zones, infrastructure projects, welcomed Slovakia as a founding member participation in Asian infrastructure investment bank. Both sides should expand tourism, culture, education, religious and other exchanges and cooperation, support Chinese language teaching in Sri Lanka.

Rajapaksa said that China's assistance to the people of Sri Lanka to make tangible benefit. Sri Lanka will continue on involving China's core interests and major concerns firmly support the Chinese side. President Xi Jinping proposed the building of the 21st century, the Maritime Silk Road initiative to create a vision of the Indian Ocean and Slovakia maritime shipping center coincides with the Sri Lankan side is willing to work with China to jointly build and operate a hero Bentota Colombo harbor and port city and other key cooperation projects accelerate bilateral free trade negotiations, strengthen economic and trade, energy, agriculture, infrastructure, health care and other areas of cooperation. Sri Lanka hopes to open the Chinese Confucius Institute in Sri Lanka to help Slovakia to improve the level of scientific research and talent training colleges.