A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

Kazakhstan is where Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed the initiative of the Silk Road ... both Xian Xinghai Boulevard and Baikadamov Boulevard in Almaty, as well as a road dedicated ...

Bell Tower Xi’an 2018 and 1997 [Photo by Bruce Connolly/chinadaily.com.cn] Xi’an, capital of China’s Shaanxi Province, is one of the nation’s oldest cities, tracing its ... At the eastern end of the ...

The Belt and Road Initiative was first proposed ... but stories of legendary characters such as Fa Xian, Xuan Zang, Alopen Abraham and Zheng He are more delightful. Since the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), ...

The 4th Silk Road Friendship Ceremony, hosted by the China International Culture Exchange Center, was held in Kuqa County, Aksu Prefecture in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in Ethiopia.

Marzuki noted that Xi's proposal in Jakarta to co-build the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road," an important part of the Belt and Road Initiative, has brought significant benefits to the world and ...

This documentary follows historian and writer Dr Sam Willis as he explores the Silk Road, the most famous trade route in history. Episodes track the global superhighway, which ran from Xian, China's ...

Chen Yaowu, an inheritor of the face-changing technique of Qinqiang Opera, an intangible cultural heritage, boarded a special ...

As the Silk Road was over 4,000 miles long, it goes without saying that there were quite a few cities that lined it. Due to the simple passage of time and shifting of the land, many of the cities ...