Torch relay for 2025 World Games starts in Sichuan, China
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Torch bearer Hu Hetao holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearer Wang Lingli holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Photo taken on July 26, 2025 shows the venue of the flame lighting ceremony before the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
Torch bearer Huang Zhangjiayang holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearer Zhong Qixin holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearer Huang Zhangjiayang holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
Torch bearer Zhao Lixue holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearer Ma Long holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearer Li Xuerui holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Xiao Xianjin (L), representative of Sanxingdui Museum, and Zhu Zhangyi, representative of Jinsha Site Museum, display the flame during the flame lighting ceremony before the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearer Ma Long holds the torch during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
Torch bearers Huang Zhangjiayang (R) and Sandra Sanchez pose for photos during the World Games 2025 Torch Relay in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on July 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
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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.…
