On the morning of October 14, 2025, President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya of Sri Lanka, who is in China attending the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women.
President Xi pointed out that China and Sri Lanka share a long-standing traditional friendship. The two countries have always developed bilateral relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, setting a fine example of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between different countries.
China and Sri Lanka are fellow travelers on the path toward development and revitalization, and good partners of win-win cooperation. China always regards Sri Lanka as a priority in its neighborhood diplomacy, and stands ready to work with Sri Lanka to carry forward the traditional friendship, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and jointly build a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future, to better benefit the peoples of both countries.
President Xi emphasized that China supports Sri Lanka in safeguarding its national sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, pursuing a development path that suits its national conditions, and focusing on economic development to achieve national prosperity.
China is ready to work with Sri Lanka on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, expand cooperation in port economy, modern agriculture, digital economy, green economy, tourism, and other areas to boost Sri Lanka’s economic and social development. The two sides should enhance law enforcement and security cooperation and resolutely combat crimes such as cross-border gambling and fraud.
They should also strengthen coordination and cooperation within multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, and firmly safeguard the common interests of the Global South.
Prime Minister Amarasuriya conveyed sincere greetings from President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to President Xi. She said that President Xi’s speech at the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women is inspirational, and demonstrates China’s important leadership role in promoting the global women’s cause.
Sri Lanka highly values its relations with China, firmly adheres to the one-China policy, and actively supports and participates in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. She thanked China for its valuable support for Sri Lanka’s economic and social development, and expressed her hopes to learn from the experience of Chinese modernization and further enhance cooperation with China to achieve new development for Sri Lanka.
She said that the four major Global Initiatives proposed by President Xi are of great significance in the current turbulent international landscape, and that Sri Lanka will work with China to put them into practice and safeguard the common interests of the Global South.
Wang Yi was present at the meeting.
Source: fmprc.gov.cn/mfa
