Overview

China sends 11-member expert team to help Sri Lanka with reconstruction efforts

Commitment Year•2005Country of Activity•Sri LankaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Sri LankaSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2005

Start (actual): Jan 19, 2005

End (actual): Jan 27, 2005

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

China Ministry of Civil Affairs
China Ministry of Commerce
China Ministry of Construction

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Sri Lanka

Loan description

China sends 11-member expert team to help Sri Lanka with reconstruction efforts

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On January 19, 2005, an 11-member Chinese expert team from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC), Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Civil Affairs arrived in Sri Lanka to 1) evaluate local conditions in the wake of the killer tsunami, 2) help local governments in the country to resume the power supply and communications and 3) reconstruct the infrastructure facilities. The expert team, China built for international relief efforts, left China's capital Beijing for Sri Lanka on Jan 17 and left 10 days later on Jan 27.

Staff comments

China contributed 63 million USD for tsunami relief in total, most of the individual projects are captured in the linked resource #41811.