Sri Lanka, March 27 -- The signing of nine new agreements between China and Sri Lanka took place under the patronage of Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.

The Prime Minister paid floral tributes to the martyred war heroes at the Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen Square, and after receiving the guard of honour from the Chinese Military, bilateral discussions were commenced yesterday. Later, in the bilateral talks held in Great Hall in Beijing, more attention was paid to increasing overall cooperation in the social, cultural, educational, and agricultural sectors in addition to economic cooperation.

The Prime Ministers of the two countries confirmed that a new chapter in the long-term friends...