Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus will inaugurate the Bangladesh-China conference on investment and trade in Dhaka on June 1 where the Chinese and Bangladeshi businesspeople will engage and explore trade and investment opportunities.

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, who is scheduled to arrive on May 31, will join the event as a special guest.

Around 250 investors and businesspeople representing 100 Chinese companies will attend the conference, said Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder on Tuesday.

While briefing the reporters at the Foreign Service Academy, he said top representatives of four Chinese chamber bodies and top executives of some Chinese companies are among the participants of the daylong conference.

This is the continuation of a recently held investment summit in Dhaka, Azad said.

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Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) are going to jointly organise the event.

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on May 31 to discuss issues of mutual interest and “elevate” Bangladesh-China economic and trade relations to a new level.

During his two-day visit, Minister Wentao is likely to meet Chief Adviser Prof Yunus and Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin in addition to his other engagements, a senior official told UNB.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen, recently said, the visit of the largest-ever business delegation in Bangladesh from China, led by the Chinese Minister of Commerce, would send a ‘strong signal’ of openness, cooperation and mutual benefit.