On the afternoon of August 24, Deputy Secretary-General Liu Kaiyang met with a five-member delegation of the winners of the “21^st Century Maritime Silk Road” Essay Contest headed by Indrananda Abeysekera, President of the Association for Sri Lankan-China Social and Cultural Cooperation. The two sides exchanged views on China-Sri Lanka ties, the “Belt and Road” Initiative and people-to-people exchanges between the two sides.