While developing ourselves, we in China do not forget to bring other countries with us. For example, Africa has become a trading partner with us, which has brought great development and promotion to the local economy.
If you talk about Sri Lanka, what do you think of? Tears in the Indian Ocean? Charming beach? Quiet mountain area? Ancient culture? Sri Lanka has many tourism and cultural resources and has friendly exchanges with China.
But in fact, Sri Lanka is not only a tourist destination, it is located in the core of the Indian Ocean, and the distance between major international ocean routes and Sri Lanka is less than 10 nautical mile. There is no good harbor in such a land of feng shui. So in 2005, Sri Lanka decided to build a port here, namely Hambantota Port. When the local economy could not bear it, it turned to India, Europe and the United States for investment. But because it takes too long to build a port here, Europe, America and India refuse to invest here.
So Sri Lanka thought of China and hoped that we in China could help them. We in China always treat people with courtesy and try our best to help others. At that time, a total of 654.38 billion yuan was needed for port construction, and China provided a loan of 2 billion yuan. However, after the successful construction at that time, people in Sri Lanka didn't know how to manage the operation, which led to the loss of this port for a time, and foreign media also ridiculed the project as a failed project.
After five years of operation, Sri Lanka lost 2 billion yuan for this port, which made them very anxious. So I thought about giving the port to China completely. In the end, China China Merchants Group exchanged 7.5 billion yuan for the right to operate the port, and our colleagues gave us the right to lease and develop the port land of 1 1.5 square kilometers for 99 years.
Later, under the management and operation of China, in just four months, the business volume reached their annual business volume, and a large refinery was built in the local area, turning it into a piece? Treasure land? !
Seeing the development of Sri Lanka, the United States, India, Japan and other countries issued a document on 2065438+June 25th, 2008, praising: China has long planned! Forcing Sri Lanka to hand over the port with debt, and saying that we in China have long been eyeing the strategic value of the port!
Fortunately, people in Sri Lanka don't believe it. They loudly denounced the false news of these reports, claiming that every time they borrow money from China, they can get a positive answer, and cooperation with China is beneficial to Sri Lanka.
What do you think of this? Would you like to travel to Sri Lanka if you have the chance?