Chinese-built runway project in Bangladesh to boost regional connectivity

Photo taken on Aug. 29, 2021 shows a scene of the inauguration ceremony for the extension of a maritime airport runway in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday laid the foundation stone virtually for the extension of a maritime airport runway in Cox's Bazar, around 300 km southeast of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. The extended runway, the longest in Bangladesh, is to be built by a joint venture of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and Changjiang Yichang Waterway Engineering Bureau. (Xinhua)