Bangladesh-China People's Friendship Association celebrates Chinese Spring Festival

Bangladesh-China People's Friendship Association (BCPFA) held a picnic party Saturday in Savar, 30 km north of capital Dhaka, to celebrate Chinese lunar new year -- the Spring Festival.

The venue of the celebration is a resort which was decorated with Chinese red lanterns and Chinese couplets.

Nearly 200 people from BCPFA and Chinese embassy attended the celebration. They were talking about friendship and looking forward to more cooperation in the future.

BCPFA President Anwarul Amin said at the function, "We hold the celebration to share with our Chinese friends the happiness of Spring Festival."

"Many Chinese friends can't go home to celebrate Spring Festival with their family members. We want you to treat our association as your home," he said.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Zhang Xianyi said, "Many members of BCPFA devoted their whole life to the friendship cause between the two countries, we feel so grateful."

Zhang said, "We hope BCPFA will continue to play an active role in enhancing and strengthening the relations between the two peoples."

BCPFA and Chinese embassy formed teams separately to have football, volleyball competition. Chinese team won volleyball competition and BCPFA won the football competition.

The last program of the celebration was the cultural show performed by some Bangladeshi professional and amateur singers and dancers.

SA Sikdar, secretary general of BCPFA, expressed his warm greetings to all Chinese friends and wished the Chinese community in Bangladesh to have a happy new year.

BCPFA was established in 1986. It is one of the most active organizations in Bangladesh which are friendly to China.