Training programme for 15 Bangladeshi officials begins in China
A five-day training programme for 15 Bangladeshi government officials began in Kunming, China, on Monday.
The programme was inaugurated at the Yunnan Academy of Governance on Monday morning and will conclude on October 16.
Organised by the Foreign Affairs Office of the Yunnan Provincial Government and conducted by the Party School of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the programme brings together officials from various government offices, including the Prime Minister’s Office.
Ma Zuoxin, deputy director-general of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Yunnan Provincial Government, and Muhammad Abdul Wadud Chowdhury, director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office and head of the Bangladeshi delegation, spoke at the inaugural ceremony.
Qi Yuanling, vice-president of the Party School of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Bangladesh’s Consul General in Kunming, Shahnaz Akhtar Ranu, also addressed the ceremony.
The five-day programme will cover China’s modernisation process, diplomatic relations with neighbouring countries, administrative management, economic development, industrialisation, modern agriculture, technology, environmental conservation and public service.
It will also include discussions on Yunnan’s experience in economic transformation and development.
As part of the programme, the delegation will visit Yunnan Baiyao Group, a modern agricultural industrial park, a vocational training centre, an industrial park, an eco-friendly urban development project, an elderly care centre and China Mobile’s Yunnan data centre.
The officials will also observe local administrative practices, rural development and urbanisation.
The delegation includes Muhammad Abdul Wadud Chowdhury, director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office; S A M Mahfuzur Rahman, speechwriter at the Prime Minister’s Office; Satia Muntaha, special metropolitan magistrate at Dhaka South City Corporation; Dr KM Alamgir Kabir and Saima Akter, directors at the Prime Minister’s Office; Md Anisur Rahman, deputy secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration; and Md Ziaur Rahman, deputy secretary at the Local Government Division.
Other members are Md Arifuzzaman, private secretary to the prime minister’s political adviser; Prabir Kumar Roy, private secretary to the special assistant to the prime minister on ethnic minority affairs; Abrar Faiyaz, private secretary to the military secretary; Syed Nazmul Hossain, ADC; Nure Alam Siddiqui, programmer; Md Mobaidul Islam Mukul, assignment officer-3; Mir Solaiman, assistant private secretary to the adviser on public administration; and Abdullah Al Mahmud Shahriar Pamir, assistant press secretary.
The programme will end on October 16.
