In late September, with the coordination of the Embassy of China in Bangladesh, a delegation of Bangladeshi think tanks successfully visited China. The delegation was led by Ambassador Farooq Sobhan, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, and included scholars from the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) and the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). During the visit, the delegation had in-depth exchanges with China Institute of International Studies on the situation in the Bay of Bengal region, China-Bangladesh relations, "Belt and Road" cooperation, and had talks with teachers and students of Peking University on the development of South Asia Research Centre and the teaching and research of Bengali language of Peking University.