Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said in Guangzhou Friday Sri Lanka welcomes more Chinese investors and tourists and will provide preferential conditions for them.

Rajapakse arrived at the capital city of south China's booming Guangdong Province Friday morning to continue his one-week state visit to China.

When meeting Governor of Guangdong Huang Huahua, Rajapakse said Sri Lanka welcomes Chinese enterprises to join in Sri Lanka's economic construction in various aspects and will provide preferential conditions for investors in infrastructure and investment policies.

Huang briefed Rajapakse on Guangdong's economic development in recent years. He said there's complementarity between Guangdong and Sri Lanka and a big potential for cooperation.Guangdong will encourage its residents to go to Sri Lanka for tourism and will organize enterprises, especially high-tech and manufacture ones, to invest in Sri Lanka.

The two agreed to carry out the newly established friendly relations between Guangzhou and Hambantota of Sri Lanka.

During his China visit, Rajapakse has presented three gifts to China: two corneas to be used for transplants in China, a replica of a Buddha statue, and a five-year old male elephant.

Before coming to Guangzhou, Rajapakse has visited Beijing and Shanghai, and he will also visit Hubei province in central China.

Rajapakse was invited by Hu for a state visit to China from Feb. 26 to March 4.

Source: Xinhua