Chinese archaeologist Yan Wenming, a distinguished professor at Peking University, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the fifth Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF), which marks the first time a Chinese scholar has received such recognition.
Security and Stability along the Silk Road
April, 19, 2021
The Silk Road Journal by Mahika Ming
Any society in the world will be stable if its armed forces are strong to protect it. That will eventually result in social development and increased trade due to surplus production. The ancient Silk Road originally was the trade route which took external goods to Great China and vice versa. With trade developed political ties and since many dignitaries took the same route to meet political leaders down the trade route it was also known as the Envoy Road. As per Chinese Archaeological findings, there are records of approx. 1,400 diplomats who had entered Great China through this network long before the western powers came out in the 1500s. During the Han dynasty in 2nd Century BC, military diplomat General Zhang Qian contributed immensely to connect China with the world and to establish law and order in the Northwestern and Western parts of China. General Zhang was a pioneering diploma