Torch festival celebrated in SW China’s Yunnan
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A tourist lights a torch at a torch festival in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 19, 2025. A torch festival kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Peng Yikai)
A drone photo taken on July 19, 2025 shows the opening ceremony of a torch festival in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. A torch festival kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Peng Yikai)
Tourists take photos of the main torch at a torch festival in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 19, 2025. A torch festival kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Peng Yikai)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 19, 2025 shows a fireworks show at a torch festival in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. A torch festival kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Peng Yikai)
Tourists enjoy themselves at a torch festival in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 19, 2025. A torch festival kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Peng Yikai)
Actresses perform at the opening ceremony of a torch festival in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 19, 2025. A torch festival kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Peng Yikai)
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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.…
