Song Tao Meets with BAL Cadre Study Group
 ( 2018.10.29 )

Beijing, October 29th—Song Tao, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met here today with a cadre study group of the Bangladesh Awami League (BAL), which was headed by Muhammad Faruk Khan, Presidium Member of the BAL Central Working Committee and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism.

Song said that China-Bangladesh friendship has a long history and bilateral relations have maintained steady development since the establishment of diplomatic ties 43 years ago. In 2016, President Xi Jinping successfully visited Bangladesh, and the relationship between the two countries was promoted to strategic cooperative partnership. China-Bangladesh relations are at a new historic starting point. The long-term friendly exchanges between the CPC and the BAL have played an important leading and facilitating role in the development of China-Bangladesh relations. The CPC is willing to further intensify the exchanges between the two Parties at all levels, continuously enrich the ways and achievements of the exchanges between the two Parties, promote cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative and in other fields, and jointly consolidate the political, material and public foundations for the development of China-Bangladesh relations.

Faruk Khan positively evaluated the friendly relations between Bangladesh and China and thanked China for its valuable support for a long time. He said that the visit of BAL's delegation to China is to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, further strengthen the exchanges between the two Parties, deepen the cooperation between the two Parties in various fields, and jointly promote the pragmatic cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative between both countries, so as to continuously inject new impetus into the development of Bangladesh-China relations.

Guo Yezhou, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting.

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