Central Asia hinterland Uzbekistan , the ancient city Samarkand is reborn, its name means "fertile land", and its appearance has a simple charm.
2000 years ago, the ancient Silk Road connected China and Ukraine with the people of the two countries. Since then, a thousand years have been interpreting the charm of the Silk Road that connects thousands of miles.
14 to 16, President Xi Jinping attended the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held in Samarkand and was invited to pay a state visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Following President Xi’s footsteps, we focus on Samarkand, the “Pearl of the Silk Road”, watch the thousand-year-old ancient city and welcome guests from all directions, SCO continues to write a new chapter in development.
Witnesses of the fusion of civilizations
Just as there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, in the minds of different people, Samarkand also shines with different humanistic lights.
When the crowded Rhegistan Square renovated the old times, the wind accompanied Ulube Observatory that night to see the brilliant stars, when the lively Bazaar floated again and again, when the camel bells on the Silk Road turned into the whistle of the "Belt and Road"... Time is like a song, singing the music of civilization thousands of times. To understand Samarkand, you also need to open the coordinates of time and space.
's unique geographical location has made it a "crossroads of civilization", and the long years of more than 2,500 years are a witness to the vicissitudes of rise and fall. In 2001, the ancient city of Samarkand was rated as a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO . The East and West are compatible, and the ancient and modern times meet. The glory of the past is washed away by the torrent of time, and the historical relics passed down from generation to generation.
Civilizations communicate because of diversity, learn from each other through communication, and develop from mutual learning.
"I have visited many places in the world. What attracts me the most are civilizations with different charms, such as the ancient city of Samarkand in Central Asia, the Egyptian Luxor Temple in Singapore Sentosa , the Wat Phra Temple in Bangkok in Thailand, the Greek , the Acropolis of Athens, etc. "In May 2019, President Xi Jinping mentioned Samarkand at the opening ceremony of the Dialogue of Asian Civilizations Conference .
Time went back to September 2013. President Xi, accompanied by then President Karimov, visited the historical and cultural sites of Uzbekistan, and explored the historical origins of cultural exchanges among various ethnic groups on the ancient Silk Road.
In June 2016, President Xi once again came to Uzbekistan. During his busy state visit, he took time to meet with Chinese cultural relics and archaeologists who are carrying out cultural relics protection and archaeological cooperation in Uzbekistan.
"We are a good example of dialogue between civilizations." Not long ago, President Xi wrote in a signed article published by Uzbekistan's People's Speech newspaper and Uzbekistan's State News Agency. A single flower blooms is not spring, but a hundred flowers bloom in the garden. History calls on human civilization to shine together.
Bridge of people's interactions
In Uzbekistan, President Xi Jinping has quoted the famous saying of the poet Navoi more than once: There is nothing better than living in friendship.
China-Ukrainian generation friendship has a profound historical accumulation. It uses the time dimension to interpret it, and there are two windows for observation.
One is a history of the Silk Road for more than 2,000 years. Western Han Zhang Qian digs out the Western Regions, Tang Dynasty Xuanzang travels to the west to seek Buddhist scriptures, and Chen Cheng missions to Central Asia in the Ming Dynasty, all of which have visited Uzbekistan. The story of the politician Sai Dian Chi·Zhansi Ding and Astronomical Calendar The scholar Wu Ru is also widely circulated among the people.
In September 2013, in front of a map of the ancient Silk Road, President Xi and then President Karimov had a dialogue.
"Samarkand was the capital of the Timuer period, and it was the hub of the ancient Silk Road, and it was my hometown."
"It is Xi'an, the starting point of the Silk Road, and it is my hometown."
Samarkand and Xi'an are a friendly city with long-lasting affection.For thousands of years, there has been a grand event between the two cities where "the messengers look at each other on the road, and business travel is endless" and has also built bridges of people's hearts to meet and know each other.
Time returns from history to the present, and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Ukraine provides another window of observation.
30 years, from developing friendly and cooperative relations, establishing strategic partnerships, and then to comprehensive strategic partnerships, China-Ukraine relations have kept pace with the times and forge ahead, and have set an example of international relations of harmonious coexistence and win-win cooperation.
walks with each other in the critical moment of fighting the epidemic. Chinese vaccines have become the main force in Uzbekistan's fight against the epidemic and have achieved joint production, effectively protecting the lives and safety of the people of both countries.
watch over each other in the process of reform, opening up and development and revitalization. In recent years, more than 6,500 professional talents trained for Ukraine have been actively engaged in various undertakings, and a large number of Chinese-speaking talents who have emerged from Confucius Institute have become the envoys of friendship between China and Ukraine.
Friendship between countries lies in the blind date of the people, and blind date of the people lies in the mutual understanding of the heart. History has repeatedly proved that those who communicate with each other with their hearts will become a long-lasting one.
The bond of economic exchange
Dream back to the prosperous Western Regions, the business-friendly Sogdian gives Samarkand an innate open temperament. There are both a steady stream of caravans and treasures from all over the world, a market where merchants gather, and a scene of "flowers and fruits blooming".
The wine in the luminous cup, the brave BMW waiting for Bole, the legendary mysterious golden peach, set out from Samarkand all the way east, crossing the desert, crossing the Gobi, crossing the oasis, watching the setting sun in the long river, listening to the wind chimes under the eaves, shaking off the wind and sand, turning into the poetic and picturesque feeling of the literati and poets when they were about to drink, the heroic spirit of the soldiers on the border hidden in the scabbard, and the sigh in the history books that a shocking geek appeared but disappeared.
In the Silk Road scroll, China and Samarkand have been old friends in economic and trade exchanges since ancient times. To this day, China remains Uzbekistan's largest trading partner and major source of investment.
From bilateral relations to multilateral diplomacy. In 2021, the total GDP of SCO member states was approximately US$23.3 trillion, more than 13 times the expansion from the beginning of its establishment. SCO "Friends Circle" ushered in a new round of largest expansion of its members, consolidating and expanding its status and influence as the world's largest and most vast regional cooperative organization.
"For the country, those who are willing to enrich the people are the basis." As the location of the SCO Secretariat, China's development path has attracted much attention from the world.
Roads can be specific, roads can be opened and all industries will flourish.
In June 2016, President Xi Jinping attended the "Angelian-Pap" railway tunnel opening video link event at the Tashkent Convention and Exhibition Center. This longest tunnel in Central Asia, built by Chinese companies, has become an integral part of the Silk Road Economic Belt jointly built by China and Ukraine. With one road to connect, the detailed drawings of the "Belt and Road" were carefully drawn. In 2021, the number of China-Europe freight trains was 15,183, an increase of 22% over 2020.
The road can also be grand, the road is not lonely, and the world is one.
President Xi has repeatedly expressed that he welcomes the "fast train" and "free train" of China's development.
16, he profoundly pointed out at the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: "We will adhere to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization, continue to actively promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, bring new opportunities to the world with China's new development, and contribute wisdom and strength to world peace and development and the progress of human civilization."
China is a beneficiary of economic globalization and a contributor. The vast sea leads the way, and the ancient Silk Road is renovated.
Coordination: Cui Shixin
Planning: Du Shangze
Written by: Kuang Xixi
Clinic Inspection: Wu Yue
Edited by: Yan Qiaoxiu
Map: Chen Quanyi
Picture source: People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency (Photographed by: Du Shangze, Ju Peng, Shen Hong, Vision: Lai Xiangdong)
(Source: People's Daily Client)
