“China-Maldives Friendship Bridge” project launched
“Today you have made our impossible dream a reality,” President Yameen said at last night’s commencement ceremony, expressing “profound gratitude” to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
31 Dec 2015, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen and Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Gao Yan inaugurated the landmark “China-Maldives Friendship Bridge” project last night following the signing of a contract with the CCCC Second Harbour Engineering Company.
“Today you have made our impossible dream a reality,” Yameen said at the commencement ceremony, expressing “profound gratitude” to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
As 2015 is the 43rd year since the establishment of Sino-Maldives diplomatic relations, “it is indeed symbolic that the most important and the most historic landmark of the Maldives will be named the China-Maldives Friendship Bridge,” he added.
The Chinese government agreed to finance the bridge project during President Xi Jinping’s historic visit to the Maldives in September 2014.
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