2024-07-09 17:16:35
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Besides, a delegation-level meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang is scheduled to take place on the same day. 20 to 22 MoUs are likely to be signed between Bangladesh and China during the Prime Minister’s visit.
Foreign Minister said in a press conference in Dhaka about the Prime Minister’s visit to China. Hashan Mahmud said that during the visit, MoUs were signed on economic and banking cooperation, trade and investment, digital economy, infrastructure development, assistance in disaster management, construction of the sixth and ninth Bangladesh-China friendship bridges, export of agricultural products from Bangladesh and communication between the people of the two countries. is likely to happen.
He also said that the inauguration of several projects of the two countries will also be announced during the visit. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Bangladesh in October 2016. At that time both the countries had reached a strategic partnership. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last visited Beijing in July 2019. He has visited China several times before. The two countries will celebrate the golden jubilee of diplomatic relations next year.
On Tuesday, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) President Jean Likun will pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her meeting room. The Prime Minister will then attend the World Summit on Trade, Business and Investment Opportunities between Bangladesh and China at China’s World Summit Wing at Shangri-La Circle in Beijing. In the afternoon, a meeting between the Prime Minister and the President of the Consultative Party is scheduled to take place at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Prime Minister will later lay a wreath at the People’s Heroes Monument in Tiananmen Square. In the evening, he will attend a dinner hosted by the Bangladesh Ambassador to China in honor of the Prime Minister at Bangladesh House in Beijing.
On Wednesday, the delegation-level bilateral meeting will be held at the Great Hall of the People under the leadership of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the Premier of the State Council of China, Li Qiang. During this time several documents including memorandum of understanding (MOU) will be signed in their presence. He will later attend a lunch hosted by the Premier of the State Council of China at the same venue. In the afternoon of the same day, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
After the visit to China, the Prime Minister will leave for the country on a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Beijing Capital International Airport on July 11 at 11 am Beijing time. The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on the same day at 2 PM Bangladesh time.
On Monday (July 8), the Prime Minister arrived in the Chinese capital, Beijing, on a four-day bilateral visit.
Source: Bass