China donates Rs. 5 Bn worth of school uniform material to Sri Lanka

China has gifted Rs. 5 Billion worth of school uniform material to millions of Sri Lankan students to meet 70% of the whole country's requirement in 2023.

The Chinese Embassy in Colombo said that the 1st batch of 3 million meters of finished material in 38,000 boxes was shipped to Sri Lanka in 20 containers from China on Monday (19).

1st Batch of China Aid school uniform material includes the following:

Shirt/Frock – 2,374,427.5 meters (White)
Trouser – 350,031.5 meters (White)
Trouser – 150,003.5 meters (Blue)
Robe – 138,134 meters (Orange)

Altogether 30,12,596.5 meters of material, about 10 times the distance from Colombo to Jaffna will be donated to Sri Lanka, said the Chinese Embassy.