The Silk Road was born over two millennia ago ... The man tasked with these missions was a diplomat and explorer named Zhang Qian. Qian didn’t accomplish this overnight, obviously. In fact, it took ...

the Silk Road began to serve as an important trunk road where the economic, political and cultural exchanges between the Orient and the West were taking place. Tomb of Zhang Qian is seated at ...

Zhang Qian (ca.164 BC - 114 BC) was an influential diplomat of China's Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD) and one of the pioneers of the Silk Road. The famous ancient Silk Road, which served as a ...

The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE. A general called Zhang Qian was sent to the Far West by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to make contact with ...

BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Some 2,100 years ago, or 1,600 years before Italian explorer Christopher Columbus found the New World, ancient Chinese General Zhang Qian braved a world of uncertainties ...

Since diplomat and imperial envoy Zhang ... Qian's expedition westwards more than two thousand years ago, a path connecting China and the outside world has come into being. The path, known as the ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

Remarks by Zhang Chunxian, member of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee and Party Secretary of CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee at the Opening Ceremony of the Silk Road ...

Since diplomat and imperial envoy Zhang Qian's expedition westwards more than 2,000 years ago, a path connecting China and the outside world has come into being. The path, known as the Silk Road ...