Silk Road

Staff members assist foreigners in using the local apps at Quanzhou Jinjiang International Airport in Quanzhou, east China's Fujian Province, on June 20, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong) FUZHOU, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Kwok Wei Yan, an influencer whose ancestor immigrated to Malaysia five generations ago, recently visited Quanzhou in east China's…

For centuries, the ancient Silk Road connected the East and the West. People from China and Central Asia contributed to its prosperity. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative. The historic trade route has since revived and thrived, and now serves as a path for…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and leaders of five Central Asian countries plant six pomegranate trees that represent close China-Central Asia solidarity and cooperation after the first China-Central Asia Summit in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Bin) by Xinhua writer Shi Xiaomeng BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) --…

A staff member demonstrates how to use a rehabilitation wheelchair during the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East & West China in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Yibo) XI'AN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The 9th Silk Road…

In A.D. 166, Chinese chroniclers recorded that ambassadors from the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius presented themselves at the imperial court of Luoyang in east-central China—and were given an unusual welcome. The travelers had come via Malaysia, followed the coasts of Thailand and Vietnam, and docked at a Chinese port at…

Editor's note: The United Nations has officially designated 44 Chinese traditions as world cultural heritage. This series examines how each of them defines what it means to be Chinese. Imaginechina The original musical Manas performed at Xinjiang People's Theatre in Urumqi during the inaugural Xinjiang Cultural Arts Festival in 2023.…

Tourists visit an ancient stage in Shaxi Town, Jianchuan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 17, 2025. Shaxi, a remote township in Jianchuan County, was once an important trading hub for tea, herbs, silk and salt on the ancient Tea Horse Road, a trade route dating back to the Tang…

This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China, dating to 168 B.C. Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat. (Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) China's first pet cats arrived in the…

An aerial drone photo shows the mingsha mountain and crescent spring scenic spot in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 23, 2024. Around 2,000 years ago, Dunhuang was a key hub on the ancient Silk Road. Chinese silk and tea passed through this gateway en route to other countries, while…

MoUs worth $1.6 billion were signed at the China-Pakistan B2B matchmaking conference in the medical equipment and surgical instrument sector held Friday in Beijing. Silk Road Assistance Industrial Internet Platform, a provider of advisory services for companies to do cross-border businesses, entered into agreements respectively with Pakistan’s dental and surgical…