53-day road trip culminates in Shanghai for German cultural ambassadors
2019-07-09
Fifty-five German cultural ambassadors arrived in Shanghai on July 5, the final stop in their 53-day road trip from Hamburg, Germany. The average age of them is 70 years old and the eldest person is over 80.
While in Shanghai, they visited the Dunhuang cultural exhibition held at Shanghai Tower. Journalists and scholars from Germany also attended the road trip.
Called the Hamburg-Shanghai New Silk Road Bus Tour, the road trip spanned nearly 13,000 kilometers and took them to eight countries along the ancient Silk Road, including Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Co-hosted by the cultural exchange association (Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesische Verständigung e.V.), ZEIT REISEN and China Tours Hamburg CTH GmbH, the bus tour has been held for the past four years to promote communication between China and Germany as well as raise awareness about the Belt and Road Initiative.