The Chinese New Year cultural performance will open at the Bangladesh national theater on January 17. The event will be hosted by the Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Bangladesh and co-organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh-China Friendship Centre and the culture and tourism department of China’s Yunnan province.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Zhang Zuo and Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Minister of information of Bangladesh and Roxana Malek, Secretary of the Ministry of Culture will attend the opening ceremony as the honorable guest.

A total of more than 1,000 people will attend the event, including the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture Affairs, the Ministry of Interior, the military, diplomatic envoys from various countries and people from different community in Bangladesh. The event includes a joint performance by the Yunnan ethnic village plateau art troupe and the acrobatic troupe of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, an exhibition of the intangible cultural heritage of Yunnan province and a photo exhibition of ‘Happy Chinese New Year Gala -2019’.