China To Help Bangladesh Earn Middle Income Status
China has expressed its readiness to provide all out supports to Bangladesh in the latter’s pursuit to attain the status of a middle income country by 2021, the year Bangladesh will be celebrating golden jubilee of its independence.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who was on a two-day visit to Bangladesh on November 18-19, told a select group of newsmen that China will fully support Bangladesh’s efforts and will continue to make its contributions in Bangladesh’s pursuit to become a middle income country by 2021. He noted that the current priority for Bangladesh is turning it a middle-income country by 2021, and improve the overall standard of life of its citizens through achieving more developments.
The visiting dignitary was talking to this correspondent of the United News of Bangladesh (UNB), a Dhaka Courier sister concern, on the sideline of his busy schedules in Dhaka on Saturday evening at the Chinese Embassy in the city. Wang Yi said as a good friend of Bangladesh, China will continue to provide assistances to Bangladesh within its capacity and in light of the needs of the country.
The Chinese Foreign Minister said China has been helping with Bangladesh in building many bridges and actively participating in the big infrastructure projects to make transportation and local people’s lives easier and more convenient.
“We hope this assistance could help meet the development needs of Bangladesh,” the Chinese Foreign Minister said.
Noting that Bangladesh is already the biggest recipient of Chinese concessional financial facilities, he said actually this year alone, the concessional facilities China has extended to Bangladesh already reached five billion US dollars. “The number could be even higher if we take into account other major projects being discussed,” he added.
Bu hikaye Dhaka Courier dergisinin November 24, 2017 sayısından alınmıştır.
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