Bangladeshi and Chinese companies have signed trade and investment deals worth over $13 billion, mainly covering infrastructure and energy sectors, in addition to the $20 billion in loan agreements the two governments signed during President Xi Jinping’s visit to the country.
Commerce ministry officials said 13 of the projects for which China signed deals with 11 Bangladeshi private firms and two government entities covered infrastructure, communication, power and energy and sports.
The deals were worth $13.6 billion, they said. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque, while briefing reporters on the deals yesterday, however, did not to quote any figure for the deals and the loan agreements between the two nations. “You will have to wait more few days to know about total financial involvement of the projects to be undertaken under the agreements,” he said.