Did you know that one out of every four swimsuits sold globally comes from Xingcheng City, China? This small coastal city in Liaoning Province produces around 170 million swimsuits annually, exporting to over 140 countries and regions.
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.…