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. 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.
From a console in Shanghai, French surgeon Youness Ahallal guided robotic arms in Morocco with real-time precision, delicately removing a patient's tumor. Despite the staggering 12,000-kilometer distance between them, China's…
Federal Railways Minister Hanif Abbasi announced completing new rail links on Friday. These projects connect regions and enhance transport efficiency. This is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway…
Photo taken with a mobile phone on Feb. 10, 2025 shows a customer shopping for eggs at a Costco store in Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, the United States. (Xinhua/Gao…
China is rich in marine resources with a coastline stretching 18,000 km. In recent years, China has been actively transforming and upgrading its marine aquaculture industry, turning the vast ocean…
University jumps 17 places compared to last year in QS Subject Rankings 2025 The National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) has achieved another milestone in global rankings, securing the…
Tolerance, coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in advancing humanity's modernization process when the future of all countries are closely connected. In the book-lined…