China’s Guizhou boosts educational travel for science with FAST
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Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
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In recent years, Guizhou has leveraged its scientific research resources such as FAST to develop educational travel for science, a favorable choice across China for inquisitive minds seeking to embark on a journey of knowledge and exploration in science.
For example, FAST, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, attracted 1.298 million visitors for educational travel for science in 2024.
This photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows tourists visiting China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows tourists visiting China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)A drone photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows the feed cabin of China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance
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.…
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