Global Silk Route Research Alliance
全球丝绸之路研究联盟
Independent Think Tank · Geopolitics · Belt & Road · Eurasia
Author
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.
11,537 pieces by this author
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), China has seen its green and low-carbon energy transition accelerate at the fastest pace, according to Wang Hongzhi, head of the National Energy…
Pakistan’s exports of services grew 15.95 per cent in the first four months of the current fiscal year from a year ago, mainly driven by telecommunication, computer, and information services.…
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for French President Emmanuel Macron at the Northern Hall of the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks in Beijing,…
Pakistan and Italy are currently working to enhance collaboration between the two countries in the agriculture sector, and are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding on professional capacity building…
An aerial drone photo shows a flare at a national-level demonstration zone of continental shale oil of Daqing Oilfield in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 4, 2025. Daqing Oilfield,…
A double rainbow appears in the sky over the Hukou Waterfall in Jixian County, north China's Shanxi Province, Dec. 3, 2025. (Photo by Lyu Guiming/Xinhua) Tourists take photos with a…
