China and Bangladesh have joined efforts to contribute to the cause of world peace and development.
In the future, the two countries should focus on peace, stability, and development, and scale new heights in the China-Bangladesh strategic relationship of cooperation.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, made these remarks while delivering a lecture at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka on Monday.
The embassy said he was invited to deliver the lecture.
Shah Ahmed Shafi, director general of the academy, and diplomat trainees from Bangladesh and five other countries were present at the lecture.
At the end, Ambassador Yao also had friendly interactions with the trainees on topics such as China-America relations, China-India relations, the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy," China-Bangladesh cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, and the issue of the South China Sea.
During his lecture, Yao pointed out that China and Bangladesh share close historical relations, comparable national conditions, similar minds in governance, and well-connected national dreams.
"The two countries have always firmly supported each other on issues of core interests, and the bilateral practical cooperation has benefited the two peoples," he said.
The reply letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping to Alifa Chin, a Bangladeshi teenager, "endowed China-Bangladesh friendship with new connotations," he remarked.
"In the midst of major changes unseen in a century, China adheres to peaceful development, pursues modernization along a path with Chinese characteristics, and proposes GDI, GSI and GCI initiatives," he said.
"Under China's mediation, Saudi Arabia and Iran reconciled with each other and resumed diplomatic relations. China also facilitates Bangladesh and Myanmar in repatriating the displaced people from Rakhine State and actively participates in UN peacekeeping operations," he added.