A drone photo taken on Aug. 9, 2026 shows water birds at Fujin National Wetland Park in Jiamusi, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Qu Yubao/Xinhua)
In recent years, the number of migratory birds to Heilongjiang Province has rebounded thanks to sustained ecological efforts.
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 5, 2026 shows the sunrise at Nanwenghe National Nature Reserve in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Zhuang Yu/Xinhua)A drone photo taken on Aug. 12, 2026 shows water birds at Fujin National Wetland Park in Jiamusi, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Qu Yubao/Xinhua)Water birds forage in a wetland in Baiquan County in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2026. (Photo by Lyu Shuxin/Xinhua)A drone photo taken on Aug. 11, 2026 shows water birds at Fujin National Wetland Park in Jiamusi, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Qu Yubao/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 10, 2026 shows great crested grebes foraging in a wetland in Hulin City of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Huang Yongxing/Xinhua)A drone photo taken on Aug. 14, 2026 shows bean geese foraging in the wetland of a national nature reserve in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Zhuang Yu/Xinhua)A drone photo taken on Aug. 5, 2026 shows oriental storks at Nanwenghe National Nature Reserve in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Zhuang Yu/Xinhua)A swallow feeds its baby in a wetland in Qiqihar, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 2, 2026. (Photo by Wang Yonggang/Xinhua)
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.…
