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(240808) -- SHANGHAI, Aug. 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An attendee takes photos of a billboard during a pre-expo supply-demand matchmaking meeting for the Intelligent Industry & Information Technology Exhibition Area and Automobile Exhibition Area of the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) in east China's Shanghai, Aug. 8, 2024. The 7th CIIE will be held from Nov. 5 to 10. (Photo by Chen Haoming/Xinhua)
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People watch a robot’s performance at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Jiaqi)
SHANGHAI, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — The eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) opened in Shanghai on Wednesday. The highlights of the China Pavilion include the latest achievements of China in comprehensively deepening reform and high-level opening-up during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025).
Lunar samples retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 and Chang’e-6 missions are displayed at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)An Iranian exhibitor shakes hands with a robot at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Jiaqi)People view a bionic shark exhibited at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Ding He)A double-deck electrical multiple unit (EMU) train model and a maglev train model are displayed at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)A visitor learns about a non-invasive brain-computer interface robot at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Ding He)A robot writes the character “fu” (meaning “good luck”) at the China Pavilion during the eighth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in east China’s Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2025.
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.…