Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe will arrive at Sri Lanka a few weeks to some three-day visit when he will hold discussions with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa along with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the federal government information department said on Thursday.

Gen Wei, that will arrive on April 27, are the next high ranking Chinese official to go to the island state following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in October, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China Yang Jiechi seen with the island country.

Throughout his trip, Gen Wei will hold discussions with President Gotabaya,” Prime Minister Mahinda as well as other senior administration officials.

Gen Wei’s trip is place to coincide with a judgment by Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court that will be very likely to be delivered next week to the constitutionality of their reproductive system of this Chinese assembled port-city on recovered sea.

Several petitions are registered in the Supreme Court from Opposition parties, civic society groups and labor unions contrary to the projected contentious law on the Colombo Port City, alleging that the 2500 1.4 billion job offended the nation’s sovereignty, the Constitution and labor rights.

they need the bill to become at the mercy of a referendum and also a distinctive twothirds mandate from parliament.

The five-member seat of the Supreme Court has postponed the hearing Friday.

A senior Sri Lankan ministry said Saturday the China-backed port-city at Colombo, that is exempted by a collection of local legislation, isn’t a threat to this nation’s sovereignty and might merely serve as”one window facilitation of firm”.

The statement titled that the Colombo Port City Economic Commission had been gazetted on March 2-3 and the judgment Rajapaksa administration tabled it in Parliament early that season. The bill intends to give a exclusive economic zone to set up a commission to provide registrations, permits, authorisations and other blessings to work business such financial zones.

The parties have mounted against the proposed bill and also a few of government allies also have raised concerns .

Even the Colombo port-city project, likely to play an integral role in China’s ambitious’Maritime Silk Road’ job in India’s backyard,” is reportedly the single largest private industry development ever from the island.

Sri Lanka in the past few years completed various improvement projects having approximately 75000 eight billion loans.

The enormous Chinese loans triggered concerns worldwide after SriLanka handed within the Hambantota vent to China from 20 17 as debt exchange payable to USD 1.2 billion for a 99 years’ lease.