China will be allowed to go ahead with its plans to construct the long-touted port city in Colombo, despite the controversy surrounding its links with the previous government under Mahinda Rajapaksa.
“The cabinet committee on economic management has recommended allowing resumption of the project subject to limitations and conditions stipulated in the EIA (environmental impact assessment),” the government said in a statement.
Sri Lanka did not say what the conditions were, but official sources told AFP that Chinese investors were given permission to resume work on the project without any major modifications.The project, funded by Chinese state-owned company China Communications Construction, represents the biggest single foreign investment ever received by Sri Lanka and will add 233 hectares (575 acres) of new real estate in the congested capital.
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