said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang, when asked to comment the outcome of Sri Lanka’s Presidential election at a routine press briefing.While hailing China and Sri Lanka as strategic cooperative partners featuring sincere, mutual assistance and lasting friendship, Geng said that China is willing to work with Sri Lanka’s new leadership and government to jointly carry out the Belt and Road construction with high quality, on the basis of mutual respect, equality, and mutual benefit, so as to achieve new progress in development of bilateral ties and bring more tangible benefits to the two countries and the two peoples.