Professor Mohan Munasinghe, who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace was honoured in China as the Chief Guest at the International Tree Planting Ceremony held at Zhengzhon city in Henan Province of China. The guests of honour of the event were Mr. Yong Tu, Former Vice Minister of Commerce and WTO Chief Negotiator of China and Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to China Dr. Karunasena Kodituwakku.
The International Tree Planting Ceremony at Central Plain International Friendship Grove was held in Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone on 30 March 2018. This ceremony was themed “Work Shoulder-to-Shoulder to build free trade road, develop hand-in-hand international rapport.”
The International Tree Planting Ceremony at Central Plain International Friendship Grove seeks to protect environment by to propagating the concept of innovation, coordinating green development and promoting people’s environmental awareness for an ecological civilization.