A 9-member delegation from the National Citizen Party (NCP), headed by the party’s convener Nahid Islam, will be departing for China on Tuesday night.
On Monday afternoon, NCP Joint Member Secretary Saleh Uddin Sifat confirmed the matter Times of Bangladesh, adding that a press briefing will be held in front of the VIP terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:30pm before the NCP leaders board their flight to China.
The other leaders slated for the China visit are Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain, Chief Organiser Sarjis Alam, Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary, Senior Joint Convener Samanta Sharmin, Senior Joint Member Secretary Nahida Sarwar Niva, Joint Convener Mahbub Alam, and Joint Member Secretary Tahseen Riaz.
This will be the NCP convener’s second international trip in a week, as it follows his 3-day Malaysia visit on Friday.
The delegation is expected to visit a university, a rural town, and industrial factories in China, in addition to one of China’s most developed and talked-about cities, Chongqing.
A meeting with the Communist Party of China will also be held.
To mark NCP’s visit to China, the Chinese embassy in Dhaka hosted a reception last Thursday for delegation members. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen was also present during the event at the embassy.
Earlier in June, at the invitation of the Communist Party of China, a delegation led by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited Beijing, followed by a Jamaat-e-Islami member delegation visit led by Jamaat Ameer Shafiqur Rahman in July.
Multiple sources from the parties have indicated that China had major investments in various sectors in Bangladesh during the previous Awami League government’s tenure. With that in mind, China hopes to maintain good relations with the major parties that are currently active in Bangladesh’s new political environment following the July Uprising last year, which led to the ouster of former prime minister and Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina.
The NCP delegation is scheduled to return on August 31.