A 15-member delegation of senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) left for China on Tuesday on a week-long visit to participate in a training programme.

The delegation departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 2:00pm on a China Eastern Airlines flight.

The programme, being organised with the support of the Chinese government and the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, will be held in Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan Province.

Prime Minister’s Additional Press Secretary Atikur Rahman Rumon, who is a member of the delegation, said the training programme will continue until June 8.

The delegation includes NGO Affairs Bureau Director General Mohammed Jakaria, Prime Minister’s Additional Press Secretary Atikur Rahman Rumon, Private Secretary-1 Mohammad Mamun Shibly, Private Secretary-2 Mehedul Islam, PMO directors Monirul Islam Patwari, Anwar Ul Halim, Mohammad Nasir Uddin Sarwar and Md Mahbubur Rahman.

Other members include Protocol Officer-1 Md Ujjal Hossain, Assignment Officer-2 SM Parvez, Research Officer Abdus Sattar Patwari, Tariq Hasan, Private Secretary to Prime Minister’s Adviser Ismail Zabihullah, and officials Julia Moin, Jesmin Akter and Mohammad Jabbar.

Earlier, speaking at a reception programme in Dhaka on Monday night ahead of the visit, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen said high-level exchanges and cooperation between Bangladesh and China strengthened further in recent times.

He said the training programme would play an important role in enhancing mutual relations and exchanging experiences between the two countries.

The ambassador expressed hope that the participating officials would be able to apply the knowledge gained from China’s development and modernisation experience to Bangladesh’s development efforts after completing the programme.