Aruna Perera heads Sri Lanka – China Business Council again | Daily News

Aruna Perera heads Sri Lanka – China Business Council again

The new office bearers: Seated from L-R:Dinithi Dias, Manager Business Council, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce; Ruwan Senavirathne, Vice President, SLCHBC; LI Guangjun, the Economic and Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of People’s Republic of China; Aruna Perera, President, SLCHBC; Chaminda Perera, Senior Vice President, SLCHBC; Haroun Cader, Treasure SLCHBC; Thulitha Mendis, Immediate Past President SLCHBC. Standing from L-R: Minidi Gamalath, Sudath Perera Associates; Udith Wijetunge, David Pieris Motor Co. Chandrika Ranawaka, Bank of China Colombo Branch; Jay Ong Jhon Seon, Prima Ceylon (Private) Limited; Prabath Harshakumar, John Keells Holdings; Nathaniel Umesh Nithiyanandarajah, Sunshine Tea (Private) Limited; Ted Muttiah, South Asia Gateway Terminals; K. Kunendran, Abans PLC. (Absent: Kumudu Jayalath, Acorn Aviation (Private) Ltd; Shiraj De Silva, (Heritage Teas.)

The 20th Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka – China Business Council (SLCHBC) of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce was held recently via MS Teams and Aruna Perera, MAC Holdings (Pvt) Ltd was re - elected as the President of the Council for the year 2021-2022.

LI Guangjun, the Economic and Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China was the Chief Guest at the AGM.

Chaminda Perera, Director of Deranya (Pvt) Ltd was elected as the Senior Vice President and Ruwan Senaviratne, Stretchline (Pvt) Ltd was elected as the Vice President of the Council. Haroun Cader from Sinwa Holdings Limited was elected as the Treasurer. Thulitha Mendis, Singer (Sri Lanka) will continue to serve on the Committee as the Immediate Past President.

In his address, Aruna Perera mentioned “Despite the many obstacles faced in the last year, I must thank the team for their resilience and the smooth execution of all the events. In these challenging conditions, we will look at how the business council could facilitate growth in trade, tourism and investment between the two countries and look forward to working with the Commercial Counsellor and other officers of the Embassy.”

Abans PLC, Bank of China Colombo Branch, David Pieris Motor Company Ltd, Heritage Teas (Pvt) Ltd, South Asia Gateway Terminals (Pvt) Ltd, Sudath Perera Associates, Acorn Aviation (Private) Ltd, John Keells Holdings PLC, Prima Ceylon (Private) Ltd and Sunshine Tea (Pvt) Ltd were elected from the membership to serve on the Executive Committee of the Council.

Due to the current pandemic situation in the country and around the world, the Council held all events for its members and other companies doing business with China as webinars during the period under review.

Further details regarding membership of the Council could be obtained from the Secretariat of the Sri Lanka – China Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce via. E-mail: [email protected]


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