The History told us that Arabs and the Chinese did not only build an economic belt on the ancient Silk Road, but also built an active and rich cultural belt that contributed to making economic and trade exchanges possible, and also contributed to building an environment of cultural and civilizational coexistence that facilitated the flow of goods, people and human contacts. The builders of the first cultural belt carried a high human understanding as they respected the religions and cultures spread along the Silk Road and carried with them the goods, religions, music, drugs, poetry, schools and human solidarity. As a result of these concepts, which were established by the first cultural belt, trade grew, cities flourished, and peoples along the Belt and Road absorbed different cultures and languages, respected religions, and markets flourished. As history tells us that building a cultural belt along the Belt and Road will inevitably contribute to peace, stability and economic prosperity along the new Belt and Road.
Prof. Gafar Karar Ahmed K.
中阿改革发展研究中心研究员、苏丹前驻华大使
Ambassador Gafar Karar Ahmed, a Sudanese Scholar and a Sinologist specializing China's relations with Middle East and North Africa. He obtained a Master's Degree from the University of Khartoum, and he finished the doctorate thesis on Sino-Arab Relations at Nanjing University, supervised by Professor Chen Dezhe in 1996. He has done the Post- Doctoral research (1999-2001) at History Department of Peking University , Dr. Ahmed is currently working as Researcher for China Arab Research Centre on Reform and Development of Shanghai International Studies University. He has published extensively on China’s policy towards and relations with the Middle East and North Africa.
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