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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
On May 11 local time, the opening ceremony of the Chinese Book Center and the China-Bangladesh Youth Exchange Meeting “Reading China” were held at the National Library in Bangladesh. Director General of the China International Literature Commission (CICG) Du Zhanyuan, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen, Cultural Counselor in Bangladesh Farooqui and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture of Bangladesh Rahman attended the event and delivered speeches. About 300 people, including representatives of the media, colleges and universities, and enterprises from both countries, attended the event.
Du Zhanyuan noted that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bangladesh and the Year of People-to-People Exchanges between the two countries. In order to further implement the important achievements of the meeting between the two leaders, China and Bangladesh have joined hands to establish a Chinese Book Center and hold the China-Bangladesh Youth Exchange “Reading China”, hoping to deepen people-to-people exchanges between the two countries and mutual understanding between civilizations, and accumulate strength and wisdom for the friendship between China and Bangladesh and the common development of the two countries for generations. He noted that books are an important medium for the dissemination of human civilization, exchanges and mutual understanding. He hoped that young people would take books as their companions, enhance their understanding of each other’s cultures through reading and exchanges, and jointly inject youthful vitality into the sustainable development of the Chinese and Bangladeshi civilizations.
The Bangladesh Chinese Book Centre has received more than 1,200 books, including “Xi Jinping on Governance” and other important works by General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping, as well as books on Chinese culture, science and technology, agriculture and other categories.
This event is an important event of people-to-people exchanges held by CICG in the context of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bangladesh and the celebration of the “China-Bangladesh People-to-People Exchange Year”. It was organized by CICG, the Bangladesh Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh, hosted by the CICG Cultural Communication Centre and the Bangladesh Archives and Library Service, and sponsored by the Confucius Institute of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.