Belt and Road Initiative & Bangladesh
4.3 Materialising BRI in Bangladesh
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A number of measures have been rolled out to materialise the ideas
embedded in the BRI.
During the visit of the Chinese President to Bangladesh in October
2016, an understanding was reached as regards implementation of
various government-to-government (G2G) and business-to-business
(B2B) projects. In total China promised about USD 40 billion
investment in Bangladesh.
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USD 24.45 billion in bilateral assistance for infrastructure projects
USD 13.6 billion in joint ventures
• In addition, USD 20 billion in loan agreements was committed.
⚫ In 2016, Bangladesh and China signed eight (8) projects costing more
than USD 9.45 billion financed by China. This include: Padma Bridge
rail link worth USD 3.3 billion; the power plant in Payra worth USD 1.9
billion; digital connectivity worth USD 1 billion; power grid network
strengthening project worth USD 1.32 billion.
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