The eastern starting point of the Silk Road trading route, Xi’an – then known as Chang’an – was a key crossroad between China, the Middle East and Europe and once China’s capital.

AS the sun began its long descent late one afternoon in the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China ... Silk Road, linking Constantinople, Baghdad and present-day Xian ...

Xi’an was identified as a key node due to its strategic location in the heart of China, along with its historical significance. It was the eastern starting point of the ancient Silk Road ...

Foreign guests attend the opening ceremony of the 9th Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum ...

The historic Silk Road originated in Chang’an and went along the northern Tien-Shan to Dunhua, the city near the Great Wall of China. The new Air Asia X service to XiÁn’s Xianyang ...

now Xi'an," Xi'an-based Silk Road historian-writer Gao Jianqun told the Global Times. The latter city, once the capital of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907) and the starting point of the Silk Road ...

China will host ... of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing’s plan to grow global trade. The Digital Silk Road (DSR) Development Forum will open on April 16 in Xian, capital of western ...

The eastern starting point of the Silk Road trading route, Xi’an – then known as Chang’an – was a key crossroad between China, the Middle East and Europe and once China’s capital.