Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Thursday said the two countries have further enhanced mutual strategic trust, enlarged economic and trade cooperation, promoted personnel and cultural exchanges, and deepened collaboration at international and multilateral arenas in 2023.
Retrospecting into progress of Bangladesh-China relations over the year of 2023, Ambassador Yao credited joint leadership and guidance of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
"Such joint efforts are welcomed across the two countries," said the Chinese Ambassador while speaking at a seminar.
He said China is increasingly recognised as the most trustworthy development partner of Bangladesh.
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"It is highly aspired that the China-Bangladesh relations would expand to wider ranges and be uplifted to higher levels," he said.
Noting that China-Bangladesh relation faces historic opportunities, Ambassador Yao encouraged the academia of China and Bangladesh to forge the CCS into an academic hub for scholars from the two countries, initiate joint studies on bilateral relations, and suggest solutions to regional hotspots.
Ambassador Yao delivered the keynote speech at the seminar themed "China-Bangladesh Relations: Identification of Future Research Agenda" co-organized by Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) of China, Center for China Studies (CCS) of Bangladesh, and Development Studies Center (DSC) of Bangladesh.
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Prof. Chen Dongxiao, President of SIIS, Prof. Li Kaisheng, Vice President of SIIS, Prof. Yang Jiemian, Chairman of SIIS Academic Advisor Council, Prof. Rong Ying, Vice President of China Institute of International Studies, Prof. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Coordinator of DSC, Md. Touhid Hossain, former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, and Shameem Ahsan, former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Offices and other International Organisations in Geneva, addressed the seminar.
Yue Liwen, Counselor of the Embassy, and Zhang Jing, Political Director of the Embassy, were also present at the seminar.
Speakers at the seminar spoke highly of the Bangladesh-China strategic partnership of cooperation, in particular the significant achievement made in the auspices of Belt and Road cooperation.
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Under the current international circumstances, Bangladesh and China should further enhance mutual trust and deepen cooperation and collaboration, so as to promote development of the two countries, maintain regional peace and stability, and safeguard the common interest of developing countries, they said.
Through intensive and extensive interactions, the academia would make its unique contribution to the exchanges between the two peoples and to the betterment of China-Bangladesh relations, they observed.