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Newsletter: This special gift is for a Bangladeshi girl named "China"

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Dhaka, 31 May (Xinhua) -- This special gift is for a Bangladeshi girl named "China."

Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Nan

On the eve of International Children's Day, Alifa Qin, a 12-year-old girl from Bangladesh, received a very special holiday gift.

Recently, President Xi Jinping replied to Bangladeshi child Alifa Qin, encouraging her to study hard, pursue her dreams, and inherit the traditional friendship between China and Bangladesh.

"I am so happy to receive Grandpa Xi's reply!" Qin said excitedly, "I want to tell my story to my friends and share my happiness with them." ”

The story with China is getting longer and longer

On November 9, 2010, the Chinese Navy's hospital ship Peace Ark arrived in the southeastern Bangladesh port city of Chittagong to begin a week-long medical service to Bangladesh.

At that time, a pregnant woman was about to give birth but was dying of a long-term heart attack. The Bangladesh side urgently asked the hospital ship "Peace Ark" for help, and the hospital ship immediately organized forces to rush to the local hospital, and Chinese doctors carried out caesarean sections for pregnant women under great pressure. After the birth of the child, the Chinese doctors guarded the ward for another two days until the mother and daughter were in a stable condition.

"The Chinese doctors saved my wife and gave my daughter a safe birth, and we are very grateful to remember it for the rest of our lives." Father Anwar Hossen said. He named his child Chin, which means "China" in Bengali, in the hope that his daughter would remember China.

Since Qin's birth, the care from China has never stopped, and her story with China has become longer and longer.

In 2013, the hospital ship Peace Ark visited Bangladesh for the second time, and the doctor did a comprehensive medical examination for Qin; In 2017, Sheng Ruifang, an anesthesiologist who operated that year, paid a friendly visit to Bangladesh with the Chinese Navy's voyage visiting formation, and met Qin at the pier, and Qin called Sheng Ruifang "Chinese mother" for the first time; In December 2019, Qin and his family came to China and boarded the "Peace Ark" moored in a military port in Zhoushan...

"Years ago, it was 'Chinese mother' who helped me come into the world; for many years, my uncles and aunts from China cared about my growth." Qin said, "Thank you very much to them! ”

"I love China and want to be the messenger of Bangladesh-China friendship," Qin wrote to President Xi Jinping, describing his special fate with China and expressing his desire to study medicine in China and contribute to the inheritance and development of the friendship between the two countries.

President Xi Jinping said in his reply that he was very happy to learn that Qin Li aspired to be a messenger of China-Bangladesh friendship when he grew up, and hoped to study medicine in China in the future and save lives and help the wounded like a "Chinese mother". I hope that Qin cherishes Shaohua, studies hard, realizes his dreams, gives back to his family, serves the society, and serves the motherland.

"I will study hard according to Grandpa Xi's instructions." Qin said that he will work harder to achieve his dream as soon as possible.

Seeing President Xi Jinping's reply, the child's father Huo Sen was also excited, "President Xi Jinping still remembers Qin in his busy schedule, I am very happy and grateful." We will definitely provide good conditions for Qin's growth, encourage her to study hard, learn Chinese well, and support her to study medicine in China. ”

The friendship between China and Bangladesh has been passed down from generation to generation

President Xi Jinping said in his reply that the people of China and Bangladesh have been good neighbors and friends since ancient times, and have a history of friendly exchanges that stretches for thousands of years.

In the new era, China and Bangladesh have joined hands to jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, and a series of pragmatic cooperation has brought tangible benefits to the two peoples.

As the first underwater tunnel in South Asia, the Canapuri River Bottom Tunnel shortened the original 4-hour drive to 20 minutes after completion; After operation, the Dasher Gandhi sewage treatment plant can treat the domestic sewage of nearly 5 million people per day; After the completion of the Padma Bridge Railway Link Project, it will connect more than 20 districts in southern Bangladesh with the capital Dhaka, which will effectively drive the local economic development...

After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the two countries overcame difficulties together and helped each other. The Bangladeshi government and people provided a large number of materials to China as soon as possible, and China has since sent an anti-epidemic medical expert team to Bangladesh to provide anti-epidemic medical supplies, and is one of the first countries to provide Bangladesh with new crown vaccines.

Today, Horsen said, there are a wide variety of "Made in China" in local shopping malls, and there are "Made in China" in various places that are convenient for the people, and China has brought "a lot of great changes and improvements to our lives." We are very grateful to China."

In a letter to President Xi Jinping, Qin mentioned that he had traveled to China in 2019 and "saw China's prosperity and development, and once again felt the warmth and friendliness of the Chinese people." Qin said that if he had the opportunity, he would like to go to China again and share what he saw and heard with his teachers and classmates when he returned.

Spread the voyage of peace and fraternity

More than 600 years ago, the "treasure ship" of Zheng He, a Chinese navigator of the Ming Dynasty, made seven voyages, sowing the seeds of friendship among the peoples of all countries along the way. More than 600 years later, the Chinese Navy's hospital ship Huairen sailed to write a new chapter in China's friendly exchanges with foreign countries.

In 2010, the hospital ship "Peace Ark" set sail on August 31 to the waters of the Gulf of Aden and Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles and Bangladesh to carry out the "Harmony Mission - 2010" mission, which lasted 88 days and covered a total distance of more than 17,800 nautical miles. This is the first time that China has organized a hospital ship to carry out humanitarian medical service missions overseas. As of April 2023, the hospital ship "Peace Ark" has gone abroad 10 times, sailing more than 260,000 nautical miles, serving 43 countries and regions, providing medical services for more than 250,000 people, and performing more than 1,400 surgeries.

Jakarta, Indonesia, Port of Tanjong Burok, November 2022. A baby boy weighing 6.24 pounds was born on the "Peace Ark" hospital ship, which was the first baby delivered by the "Peace Mission-2022" mission and the seventh "Peace Baby" welcomed by the "Peace Ark" hospital ship that went overseas for the 10th time. The child's parents named their child "The Ark" to commemorate this precious experience.

Over the years, from "Qin" to "Ark", from Bangladesh to Indonesia, with the "Peace Ark" hospital ship voyage again and again, babies have been born healthy and thriving, and the "seeds" of peace and friendship have been sown to all corners of the world. These children have witnessed the continuous development of the cause of Sino-foreign friendship, and will surely pass on the spirit of peace, friendship, unity and cooperation to more people, and will also use their own unique experiences to tell vivid stories of building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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