A staff member demonstrates how to use a rehabilitation wheelchair during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)
The 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China kicked off in Xi’an on Wednesday.
Visitors learn about aircraft products during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)A visitor experiences a driving simulator during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)Visitors learn about tea products from Hubei Province during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)Visitors learn about Georgian products during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)Visitors learn about Tajik products during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance,
a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went
back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016,
working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
