Save the Children's country director in Sri Lanka, Chris McIvor, said that the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka was "alarming".
More rains are forecasted for Sunday and Monday, for now, the weather has cleared. Another Indian ship carrying aid was due to arrive on Monday. Unusually heavy rain triggered more than a dozen landslides that buried homes on mountain slopes.
The official Disaster Management Center (DMC) said a total of 122 people were confirmed dead while 97 remained missing.
In Galle, a city in the tourist-heavy South West that was badly hit by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, aerial footage showed enormous areas of flooding, with residents standing knee deep and rescuers distributing aid packages.
People in the town of Agalawatte said they were losing hope of water levels falling soon.
China and Sri Lanka are traditional friendly neighbours, and the Chinese people feel the same as the Sri Lankan people when they suffer in the disasters, Xi said.
Sri Lanka has experienced scattered showers in many parts in the past 24 hours but flood waters are rapidly receding, officials said.
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Sri Lanka has issued a global appeal to United Nations, the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) and neighbouring countries to provide assistance for the affected people.
The Meteorology Department said that the depression in the East central Bay of Bengal had intensified in to a Cyclonic storm "MORA" but was now further moving away from the island. Reports state that two more Indian Navy ships - NS Shardul and INS Jalashwa- have also been dispatched for Sri Lanka with relief materials including food, water and medicines.
The United Nations is supporting the government's relief efforts through several of its branches: UNICEF will donate water containers, water purification tablets and tarpaulin sheets.
With more than 100 people still missing and 80 reported injured, these have been Sri Lanka's worst rains since 2003, when rain lead to the deaths of 250 people.
Sri Lanka, which has been heavily deforested for cash crops, often witnesses landslides during the monsoon season.
Sri Lanka's National Building Research Organization has also issued warnings of further landslides in a number of districts, including Kegalle and Ratnapura, where IOM provided shelter assistance to flood and landslide-affected communities previous year.
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