Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Beijing early Tuesday morning. The President and the Sri Lankan delegation were received by the Executive Vice Foreign Minister of China Zhang Zhijun. A press statement by the Presidential Media Division said that President Rajapaksa is on a four-day official visit to China on an invitation extended by his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during the bilateral meeting held in St. Petersburg, Russia this June.During his stay in Beijing and Shenzhen, President Rajapaksa will hold bilateral meetings with the Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. He will also attend the opening ceremony of the Universiade in Shenzhen.According to media reports, Sri Lankan President is in China to seek tighter economic ties in a stormy financial world, and against the backdrop of an aggressive Western push for a probe into war crimes allegations.