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President Wickremesinghe visits Huawei Company in China
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is on an official four-day trip to China, led the Sri Lanka delegation to Huawei’s research and development centre in Beijing today (17).
President Wickremesinghe stressed the need for Sri Lanka to build a competitive digital and green economy to face the challenges of the future and noted that the foundational work for this transformation is already underway.
Mr. Simon Lin, Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies and President of Huawei Asia Pacific, announced his company’s readiness to support an annual study program aimed at nurturing software and hardware engineers in Sri Lanka. He mentioned that Huawei has already initiated collaborations with several Sri Lankan universities, not only in academic assistance but also in providing technology and infrastructure.