The number of travelers from Malaysia surged by 548.4 percent year-on-year during the first seven months of this year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism reported.
After trekking 22,000 kilometers by foot across a dozen countries, Vienna Cammarota arrived in China via Irkeshtam, the farthest west land port in China, on Aug 29.
Professor Xi Huidong points out that besides food, language also traveled along the ancient Silk Road routes. He takes the Shaanxi dialect " kelimacha" as an example.
Everybody has heard of the Silk Road,but not that many people know what the Silk Road really is. Xi Huidong, deputy dean of the Institute of Silk Road Studies of Northwest University, uses a color-coded system to illustrate the four main routes of the Silk Road.
The formation and development of early text in major ancient civilizations was highlighted at an academic forum that kicked off on the Suzhou Campus of Renmin University of China in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, on Wednesday.