Flame welcome ceremony of the Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade held in Changchun, Jilin, China
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A performance is staged during a flame welcome ceremony of Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
A flame welcome ceremony of Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade is held in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
Gu Gang, president of the Executive Committee of the Changchun Winter Universiade, presents the torch during a flame welcome ceremony of the Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
Yang Zhanshan (L), a delivery worker, passes the flame lantern to Zhou Yang, Chinese Olympic champion in short track speed skating, during a flame welcome ceremony of Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
Zhou Yang, Chinese Olympic champion in short track speed skating, presents the flame lantern during a flame welcome ceremony of Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
The flame cauldron is seen during a flame welcome ceremony of the 2027 Winter Universiade in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
Hu Yuting (C), executive president of the Organizing Committee of the Changchun Universiade, ignites the flame cauldron during a flame welcome ceremony of the Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade in Changchun, Jilin Province, northeast China, Oct. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
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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.…
