A nine-member high-level delegation of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), led by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, returned home on Friday night from China after a five-day visit at the invitation of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
The Chargé d’Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka received the delegation at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, reports New Age.
The nine-member delegation included standing committee members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and Selima Rahman, party chairperson’s advisory council member Ismail Zabiullah, Sukomal Barua, Zahir Uddin Swapan, BNP media cell convenor Maudud Hossain Alamgir Pavel and the chairperson’s personal secretary ABM Abdus Sattar.
The delegation left Dhaka on June 22 and arrived in Beijing on the following morning.
During the visit, the nine-member delegation engaged in meetings with senior CPC leaders and Chinese ministers.
The discussions focused on strengthening party-to-party ties, regional geopolitics and future Bangladesh-China cooperation in trade, education and high-tech sectors, the delegation members said.
The BNP reiterated its support for China’s One China policy and praised the Belt and Road Initiative, while expressing interest in greater Chinese participation in Bangladesh’s development projects.
The team visited smart villages and hi-tech zones in Xi’an, toured infrastructure corporations in Beijing and attended formal receptions and cultural events hosted by CPC officials.
The visit was marked as a significant step in bolstering bilateral and strategic engagement between the two parties.
The CPC extended a formal invitation to BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman to visit China in the future.
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