BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese language President Xi Jinping on Wednesday despatched a video message to an occasion held by Bangladesh in commemoration of the centenary of its founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s start, additionally in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s independence.
On behalf of the Chinese language authorities and Chinese language folks, Xi prolonged honest greetings and finest needs to Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and the Bangladeshi authorities and other people.
Stressing that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman based the Folks’s Republic of Bangladesh 50 years in the past, Xi mentioned Rahman, an previous good friend and an excellent good friend of the Chinese language folks, visited China twice and developed friendship with Chinese language leaders of the older generations.
Xi mentioned the 2 sides ought to take into account contributions made to the bilateral relations by leaders of the older generations and carry ahead bilateral friendship.
Since its independence, Bangladesh has made exceptional achievements in nationwide development, Xi mentioned, including China is glad about that as a pleasant neighbour.
China and Bangladesh have been pleasant neighbouring international locations since historical instances, and the friendship spanning over a thousand years was witnessed by the Silk Street, Xi mentioned. Over the past 46 years because the institution of diplomatic ties, the 2 sides have all the time handled one another with mutual respect and on an equal footing, provided mutual help and labored hand in hand, Xi added.
As China and Bangladesh are each at an important stage of nationwide growth, Xi mentioned the Chinese language Dream of nationwide rejuvenation and the dream of Sonar (golden) Bangla are interconnected, and the pragmatic cooperation between the 2 international locations has delivered tangible advantages to the 2 peoples.
Because the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2 international locations have been making joint efforts to beat the difficulties and rendering mutual assist, Xi mentioned. Main tasks in Bangladesh Chinese language enterprises participated in have made groundbreaking progress, and the remedy of zero tariff for 97 % of the taxable gadgets imported from Bangladesh into China has formally taken impact, Xi added.
Stressing that he attaches nice significance to the event of China-Bangladesh ties, Xi expressed the hope to work with Bangladesh to higher align the 2 international locations’ growth methods and collectively promote the development of the Belt and Street, in order to take the China-Bangladesh strategic partnership of cooperation to new heights.