Staff members process glass products at a glass enterprise in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)
In recent years, along with the development of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a key logistics network connecting China’s western regions to global markets, Chinese enterprises have been expanding glass-related industries by leveraging regional resources and logistics advantages.
A staff member checks automotive glass products at a glass enterprise in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)A staff member transfers a glass product at a glass enterprise in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, April 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)A staff member loads glass products for export into a container at an enterprise in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)A glass product is pictured in an enterprise in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, April 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)This aerial drone photo shows a truck loaded with glass products leaving the Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, April 17, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)This drone photo taken on March 13, 2025 shows an intermodal rail-sea transport service center in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)An aerial drone photo shows the Tuanjiecun Station, Xinglongchang Station and dry port of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (from L to R) at the Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, April 17, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)An aeiral drone photo shows roofs of the factory buildings of a glass enterprise covered with photovoltaic panels made of local glass products in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, April 15, 2025. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)Staff transfer soda ash transported from northwest China’s Qinghai Province at a glass enterprise in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, April 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)
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.…
