A ‘path of happiness’ on the Belt and Road

Jamlik Mwangi Kariuki, a young Kenyan who once worked on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, twice came to China for further studies, receiving training in railway engineering, thanks to the opportunities provided by the railway. Benefiting from the experience, Kariuki and his classmates wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping, expressing their gratitude. In his reply, President Xi encouraged them to “continue to contribute to the operation and development of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway and to the cause of China-Kenya friendship and cooperation.”

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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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