'Beijing keen on financial support to Dhaka'

Beijing and Dhaka are working on deepening their financial cooperation, said Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming.

"China is positively considering some financial cooperation with Bangladesh in one way or another," he was quoted as saying.

The envoy was responding to a question at the program "China's New Journey" held at a hotel in Dhaka on Friday.

Jiming said he had in-depth discussions with the finance minister of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Bank governor recently.

"During those meetings, we reached some consensus that we really should take some measures, including but not limited to currency swap arrangement and the clearance of trade with the Chinese yuan or Renminbi (RMB)," he added.

"But before anything substantial can be achieved, we have a lot of technical issues, technical difficulties" to overcome, he concluded.