Consul General of Sri Lanka in Guangzhou, Priyangika Dharmasena was invited for the graduation ceremony of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology on 26 June 2019.
Amongst the international graduates, who were conferred their degrees at the ceremony, there were 10 Sri Lankans obtaining PhDs and Master’s Degrees in the fields of environment science, geology and oceanography.
Consul General Dharmasena in her speech congratulated the graduates who have left their motherland to study in China and accomplished their tasks with hard work. She also thanked the Institute and China, for giving such opportunities for Sri Lankan students, from the University of Ruhuna and other universities in Sri Lanka to come to study in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Professor Wehuan Zhan, Commission Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and Professor Sujeewa Amarasena, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ruhuna were among others who participated in the graduation ceremony.
