Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe discussed the restructuring of the country's debt with the Chinese finance minister, the president's office said in a statement on Sunday.
According to Reuters, Ranil Wickremesinghe is optimistic that discussions will end successfully, it said in the statement. China is Sri Lanka's largest bilateral lender.
Sri Lanka, home to a population of 22 million, is facing its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades and is renegotiating around $30 billion of foreign debt with bilateral creditors such as China, Japan and India.