Welcome mat laid out to attract Chinese support for development projects

Overseas investors, especially from China and India, are welcome to join development projects in Bangladesh, according to Obaidul Quader, the Southeast Asian nation's minister of road transport and bridges.

Quader, also general secretary of Bangladesh's ruling party the Awami League, made the comment a day after meeting with a delegation of the Communist Party of China, or CPC, visiting Bangladesh to find ways to speed up China-backed development and infrastructure projects throughout the country.

The Chinese delegation, led by Chen Zhou, deputy head of the CPC Central Committee's International Department, visited Bangladesh from Jan 9-11, according to the website of the Chinese embassy in Dhaka. Yao Wen, the new Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, was present at the meeting.