From March, 26^th to 30^th, 2014, 19 officials from LGRD visited BAI. This is the third group of its kind since November last year. The Department of International Cooperation and Exchange met the delegation and arranged a lecture, on-site teaching and field trips.

Prof. Liang Jun Hosted the Lecture

Dr. Liu Liang Lectured for the Delegation

The topic of this visit is “administration and management of local governments”. Doctor Liu Liang from the Department of Public Administration delivered a lecture on “the system of Chinese local governments” and exchanged with the members over many issues, such as the relationship between local People’s Congress and local People’s Political Consultative Conference, the concept of socialist market economy and financial revenues and expenditures of local governments. After the lecture, accompanied by Zhang Ling, Associate Professor from the Department of Public Administration, the delegation visited Xicheng Administrative Service Center to experience the level of public service by the 3^rd generation of administrative service centers. Besides, the group visited the Great Wall, the Palace Museum and the Temple of Heaven, coming close to the splendid Chinese culture with a long history.

 Q&A Session of the Lecture

Visiting Xicheng District Administrative Service Center

Through making arrangements for the three groups of high-level officials from Bangladesh with 60 people in total, the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange made tailored plans for the visits by laying down the agenda of lectures and on-site teaching, further enhancing our level of receiving foreign guests. For the Bangladesh officials, they expressed their thanks to us for our considerate arrangement and services and hoped to draw on the experience here about the construction of Chinese local governments. Meanwhile, they said that they were willing to stay in touch with us for further exchanges and cooperation.

Group Photo at the Center

Group Photo with Director of the Center

The above program has concluded a success with Asian Institute of Technology Centre in Vietnam (AITCV), an international training organization founded in 1993 under the agreement between Vietnam government (MoET) and AIT. The program happened in Japan, South Korea and China, lasting for two weeks, with a 4-day schedule at Beijing.

(Written by Chen Cong; translated by Zhang Jing)