Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming urged Bangladeshi businesses not to switch over its supply chain to any other countries as an alternative to China in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

“I strongly recommend that Bangladesh businesses shouldn’t reconsider their supply chain to switch over to any other countries from China,” he told diplomatic correspondents sharing three reasons -- it is impossible, it will be costly and it is unnecessary considering the situation on the ground.

Acknowledging the impact of coronavirus to some extent, he said people are now getting back to work while businesses returning to normalcy.

He said Bangladesh and Myanmar are both good friends of China, and his country wants more dialogue and negotiations between the two countries.