🇨🇳🤝🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Seals Friendship Cooperation MoU with Bazhong City, China

• A Sri Lankan delegation has formalised a Memorandum of Friendly Cooperation with officials from Bazhong City in China’s Sichuan Province. • The agreement is designed to strengthen ties and facilitate opportunities across four key sectors: Culture, Tourism, Education, and Trade. • Objective: Enhance mutual understanding, promote exchanges, facilitate trade, and open pathways for future sister-city relationships between municipalities. • The MoU was signed between the China–Sri Lanka Association for Cultural, Tourism and Economic & Trade Exchange and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries of Bazhong City. • The Sri Lankan visit was coordinated by the newly established Silk Route Institute of South Asia (SRISA), a think tank promoting knowledge-based cooperation between East and West. • Both parties expressed confidence that the partnership will contribute to the social and economic development of Sri Lanka and Bazhong City.