Further and faster: How Chinese people travel over 75 years
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China in 1949: Poorer than poor
China in the 1980s: 🚴 × 500 million
China in the 2000s: 🏍 × 87 million
China in the 2020s: 🚗 × 345 million
And there are 45,000 km of high-speed rail 🚄 and 5,000+ flight routes 🛩.
All of this happened in Grandma’s lifetime!
Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20241007/0148c9b4683c4666b5ef32f3b15a8a61/c.html
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.…
