Top Chinese military delegation visits Sri Lanka

A high-level Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) delegation headed by General Ma Hixiaotian the Deputy Chief of General Staff arrived in Sri Lanka to discuss professional training, exercises and further promotion of military assistance to Sri Lanka.

The members of the delegation will hold discussions about the move to strengthen bilateral relationship between the two armies and provide increased opportunities to the Sri Lankan Army. The delegation will explore ways of increasing the intake of our trainee officers to Chinese military academies with requests to be channeled through the Ministry of Defence. According to the political analyses this was an important issue where the short term period of SriLankan Army Commander return from India delegates of the Chinese Army have visited SriLanka to hold discussions with Lankan forces.