Bangladesh and China, bound by friendship.
Bangladesh-China Cultural, Economic & Mass Communication Center
People meet. Cultures connect. A shared history takes shape.
Since 1987, BCCEMCC has brought people and institutions in Bangladesh and China closer through cultural exchange, friendship, dialogue and practical cooperation. This website brings together the Center’s current work, the people around it and nearly four decades of shared history.
Discover BCCEMCC
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The ties that endure
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Every exchange
leaves a story.
Follow our history ↗
1987 —
A beginning in Dhaka
BCCEMCC was established in 1987. Cultural gatherings, visits and conversations became the foundations of a lasting exchange.
A memory we share
Photographs, letters and the people behind them connect those early exchanges with the Center’s work today.
01 — Purpose
Friendship grows through exchange.
A cultural programme can introduce a tradition to a new audience. A delegation can begin a professional relationship. A roundtable can open a practical conversation. Over the decades, these shared experiences become part of the Center’s history.
BCCEMCC connects these different forms of exchange across culture, public life, business and regional friendship networks.
Culture. Dialogue. People.
Different forms of exchange, connected by the same long-term relationship.
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Culture opens the door.
Exhibitions, performances, heritage and shared celebrations give bilateral friendship a human scale—something people can see, hear and remember.
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Dialogue creates practical connection.
BCCEMCC also convenes conversations around trade, investment, development and institutional cooperation, complementing cultural relationships with practical exchange.
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People carry the relationship forward.
Leaders, members, guests, diplomats, professionals and friends have shaped the Center across decades. The people of BCCEMCC are part of the institution’s living history.
Leadership with continuity.
President
Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Altaf Hossain Choudhury
President of BCCEMCC
A timeline shaped by shared moments.
1987↓2026
2007-10-10
2008-08-31
2010-06
2013-11
2020-06
2021-12
Relationships beyond one institution.
Regional networks and institutional counterparts extend BCCEMCC’s work across South Asia and China.
Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
BCCEMCC maintains a working relationship with the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries through regional friendship forums and institutional exchange. Their engagement has included correspondence and participation in China–South Asia friendship activities.
2021–2022
References
Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Bangladesh
BCCEMCC’s activities have repeatedly brought its leadership and members together with Chinese ambassadors and Embassy representatives in Bangladesh. The relationship has supported cultural programmes, commemorations and wider people-to-people exchange over many years.
2007–2024
References
Organization for South Asian Regional Friendship and Cooperation with China (OSARFCC)
Through OSARFCC, BCCEMCC participates in a South Asian network of friendship organizations working with counterparts in China. The network creates a regional forum for dialogue, exchange and long-term institutional relationships.
2020–2025
References
The archive belongs to the future, too.
Many of BCCEMCC’s most valuable records were created before websites and social media became routine. Preserving them now makes four decades of institutional memory easier to explore.
The Digital Heritage Archive brings together photographs, invitations, letters, clippings and other materials while keeping their original context intact.
07 — Contribute
Help us complete the picture.
Members and friends of BCCEMCC can contribute photographs, documents and memories so that today’s activities become tomorrow’s historical record.
Contribute a photograph or document ↗