Sri Lanka follows China's path to progress - President to Shanghai investors

[March 02, 2007 - 7.30 GMT]

China has emerged as a strong nation today having followed its own path of development, which saw development being brought from the village to the city. Sri Lanka too has taken this path that helped China to emerge strong.

"Abandoning the wrong path followed by us since independence and correctly understanding the trends of history, at the last Presidential Election the people gave a mandate for the policy of developing the country by developing the village. Our government is following this path today with good results", said President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the Trade, Investment and Tourism Seminar at Shanghai yesterday (March 01, 2007.) 

Inviting Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in a wide range of projects in Sri Lanka, President Rajapaksa said: "We have already allocated a large percentage of our budgetary provisions to accelerate the development of roads, electricity, education and technology in rural areas. We would like the various investors of the world to identify Sri Lanka as being good for infrastructure development."

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