Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan

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. When he came home he set up the China Study Centre at NUST. He retired from there. He writes about CPEC and the Belt and Road, and about what China's rise means for Pakistan. His articles run in Modern Diplomacy and on Think Tank Pakistan, and China Daily and China News Service have both quoted the work.

Pakistan’s Mineral Economy: Unlocking Potential, Building Peace and Prosperity 巴基斯坦矿产经济:释放潜力,建设和平与繁荣

(下边有中文翻译请继续看到底。 谢谢。) In the 21st century, the global economy is increasingly driven by the strategic control and utilization of natural resources, particularly critical minerals and rare earth elements. 21世纪,全球经济日益受到对自然资源,特别是关键矿产和稀土元素的战略控制和利用的驱动。 In…