Sri Lanka government is to establish a new Consulate General in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province of Southern China, which is one of China’s key commercial and manufacturing regions. This will be Sri Lanka’s third Consulate Office in China.
Sri Lanka has already established a Consulate General in Shanghai in 2007 and a Consulate in Chengdu in 2009, in addition to the Sri Lankan Embassy in the Chinese capital Beijing.
The new Consulate General in Guangzhou will facilitate the expansion of bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and China in areas of economy, trade and tourism while further strengthening people to people contacts between the two countries.
Ministry of External Affairs said that the government has already appointed a Foreign Service Officer to the position of the Consul General in Guangzhou.
Courtesy: Government Information Department
