【正】Sri Lanka’s links with China are known to date back over two thousand years. One of the drawbacks of our colonial period was that our links with this great land were interrupted for a few centuries. However,"nothing is permanent" and the stage looks to being set for our future association to be forged even stronger than at any time in our past history. The Norochcholai Power Plant will,for instance,help towards containing the ever rising cost-of-living,when it comes on stream.