Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina after her visit to China, has announced that China has given its consent to the implementation of a road-proposal of Bangladesh. The proposal is about a road linking of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Sheikh Hasina told to the Parliament that the Bangladesh Government would finance its project called "Study and Design for Bangladesh-Myanmar link road". She said that the project would be completed in two steps.

The first phase of the project would include 2 km of road construction from Ramu to Gundum, both of these places are inside Bangladesh, and a road of 23 km between Taungbro and Bolibazar, would be constructed in Myanmar.

In the second phase of the project, a 110 km of road link would be constructed by Myanmar authorities between Bolibazar and Kyanktow.

She mentioned that the Government has always wanted that Bangladesh should be connected with Association of South East Asian Nations and China. She said that the link with these countries is very beneficial for the people in Bangladesh.

"Effective roads and rail communications will be set up among the ASEAN countries once the proposed project is implemented", she said.

Sheikh Hasina also said that political, commercial, economic and cultural relations with all the south eastern countries will be interlinked.

After re-getting the power in January, the Bangladesh Prime Minister has been seeking for road links with all the South Asian countries.