A staff member conducts maintenance work at a high-speed train base in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 28, 2026. (Photo by Yang Suping/Xinhua)
Railway departments nationwide are actively conducting train maintenance to ensure safe operations during the upcoming 2026 Spring Festival travel rush.
A staff member conducts maintenance work at a high-speed train base in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Xin Yi/Xinhua)Staff members conduct maintenance work at a high-speed train base in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Jan. 29, 2026. (Photo by Yang Zixuan/Xinhua)Workers of China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd conduct maintenance work in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 29, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)Workers of China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd conduct maintenance work in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 29, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)Workers of China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd conduct maintenance work in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 29, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)Workers of China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd conduct maintenance work in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 29, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
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.…
