Yao Wen, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh, and Madam Li Yu, the spouse of the Ambassador congratulated Bangladeshi child Alifa Chin with a bouquet in Dhaka city on Friday.
Ambassador Yao encouraged Alifa to study hard and make greater contributions to the country.
Ambassador Yao and Madam Li also presented study and daily necessities to Alifa and her family.
Chin sincerely thanked China for its help to her family.
She expressed her willingness to study hard and become a messenger of friendship between China and Bangladesh.
In 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote back to Alifa Chin, encouraging her to study hard, pursue her dream and carry forward the traditional friendship between China and Bangladesh.
Noting that Chin's story shared in the letter is a good example of the friendship between the two countries, Xi Jinping had said that since ancient times, the Chinese and the Bangladeshi have been close neighbors and good friends, whose friendly exchanges date back over a thousand years.
More than 600 years ago, Zheng He, a Chinese navigator of the Ming Dynasty, sailed twice to Bangladesh, sowing the seeds of friendship between the two peoples, the Chinese president said.
Over 600 years later, during a friendship and humanitarian voyage of "The Peace Ark," a China's navy hospital ship, a Chinese female military doctor helped Chin's mother get through a dangerous time and give birth to her in Chittagong. And Chin's father named her after the Bangladeshi word for China. It is a very touching story of friendship between China and Bangladesh.
When Alifa Chin was born in 2010, her mother suffered from a difficult delivery due to a severe heart problem. At that time, "The Peace Ark," the visiting hospital ship, received the request for help and immediately sent military doctors to the local hospital to perform a caesarean section under great pressure. Finally, the mother and daughter were safe. To show gratitude, the father named the baby "Chin," which means "China" in Bengali.
