The Silk Road Community Building Initiative in Bangladesh

2019-09-03

On June 16,2019, the launching ceremony of the Silk Road Community Building Initiative in Bangladesh was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ji Bingxuan, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of Chinese Association for International Understanding, Zhang Zuo, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Fazler Rabbi Mia, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bangladesh, Dilip Barua, Chairman of the Bangladesh - China Silk Road Forum and representatives from Chinese-funded enterprises, all together 120 people, attended the launching ceremony. Fazler Rabbi Mia said, Bangladesh attaches great importance to and is actively involved in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and hope to cooperate extensively with China in various fields such as economics, culture, government exchanges and non-governmental exchanges within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Ji Bingxuan said that we should take the launching ceremony as an opportunity to carry out extensive non-governmental exchanges, promote people's livelihood cooperation, so that our two peoples can promote the common cause of people-to-people connectivity, share the outcomes of people-to-people exchanges and help to consolidate the social and public foundation of China-Bangladesh friendship.