Beijing, October 17th—Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), met here today with a delegation of senior cadres of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) from Sri Lanka led by Bimal Rathnayake, Member of the Political Bureau of the JVP and Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation of Sri Lanka.

Liu said, in January this year, President Xi Jinping held talks with visiting President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and reached important consensus on building a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future and deepening exchanges of governance experience between the two countries' ruling parties, charting the course for the development of the relations between the two countries and the two Parties. The CPC is willing to continue to strengthen high-level exchanges with the JVP, and assist practical cooperation between the two countries and promote people-to-people bonds through the inter-party channel. Liu shared the great process and successful experience of the CPC in leading the advancement of Chinese modernization, and introduced the main agenda of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. He said, formulating and implementing national development plans is an important piece of governance experience of the CPC. The political parties of China and Sri Lanka can have in-depth exchanges on formulating medium-and long-term development plans and promoting national modernization, so as to promote better alignment of the two countries' strategies and plans. 

Rathnayake said, the JVP values the friendly exchanges with the CPC and thanks China for its valuable support for Sri Lanka's economic and social development. Under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, China has achieved remarkable accomplishments in economic development, anti-corruption and other areas. The successful practice of the CPC has convinced Sri Lanka that strong party leadership is the key to a country's development and progress. The JVP is committed to maintaining close high-level exchanges with the CPC, learning from its experience and practices in strengthening party building and promoting national development, and conducting in-depth exchanges and cooperation in areas such as cadre training, smart city construction, poverty reduction, and promoting ethnic unity, in order to enhance JVP's own governance capacities and work hand in hand with China to advance the modernization process of the two countries. 

Sun Haiyan, Vice-minister of the IDCPC, was present.