Chinese Communist Party Minister Liu Haixing in Dhaka on Three-Day Visit, to Meet Prime Minister Wednesday

Liu Haixing, minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, has arrived in Dhaka on a three-day visit. He reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on an Emirates Airlines flight at 11 p.m. on Tuesday (3 November).

At the airport, the Chinese delegation was received by BNP National Standing Committee member and adviser to the prime minister on public administration Ismail Zabihullah, BNP Vice Chairman Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon, Joint Secretary General Syed Emran Saleh Prince, Joint Secretary General Advocate Abdus Salam Azad and the prime minister's protocol officer Kamrul Islam.

On Wednesday (4 November), the head of the Chinese delegation will begin the day's programme at 8:20 a.m. by paying respects at the mausoleum of martyred President Ziaur Rahman and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.

He will then pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Bangladesh Secretariat at 10 a.m. The meeting is scheduled to run until 10:40 a.m.

Liu Haixing will be accompanied at the meeting with the prime minister by the Chinese embassy's charge d'affaires Dr Liu Yuyin, Director General of the Bureau for Southeast and South Asian Affairs of the party's International Department Peng Xiubin, Director General of the Bureau of Public Information and Communication Hu Zhaoming, deputy director general-level official of the Southeast and South Asian bureau Li Jinyan, divisional director of the same bureau Wang Siqi, and deputy divisional director of the department's General Office and assistant to the minister Liu Chengxiao.

The delegation also includes English interpreter Shi Meiqi and International Department officials Chen Yongpei, Zhang Guyu, Liu Hongru and He Yiyang.

After meeting the prime minister, Liu Haixing will pay a courtesy call on the president at Bangabhaban at 11 a.m. He will tour Bangabhaban and attend a welcome luncheon hosted by the president.

The same day, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., he will take part in a roundtable titled 'Where History Illuminates the Future: China-Bangladesh Political Parties Plus' at the Crystal Ballroom of Hotel InterContinental. He is also expected to attend the inauguration of the 'Bangladesh-China Centre for Party and State Governance Studies' at the event.

From 3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., Liu Haixing will visit the Bangladesh National Museum. He will then visit the site of the former chancery of the Chinese embassy in Dhaka and its current chancery. At 7 p.m., he will attend a dinner at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel hosted by Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, political adviser to the prime minister and acting secretary general of the BNP.

On the final day of the visit, Thursday (5 November), Liu Haixing will attend a livelihood assistance distribution event at Shamsul Haque Khan School and College at 8:45 a.m.

He will then attend a breakfast meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir at the State Guest House Padma. Liu Haixing and his delegation are scheduled to leave Dhaka at 12:50 p.m. on Thursday at the end of the visit.