India, Jan. 31 -- China is very fond of Silk Roads. In 2013, a year after Xi Jinping was anointed Emperor of the Middle Kingdom, he initiated a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Since then, the Chinese diplomacy has been tirelessly promoting the mega project to link the country to its neighbours as well as to Central Asia, Africa and Europe. Beijing's latest promotional move has been to confer the Silk Road Super Ambassador Awards to the Ambassadors of Pakistan , the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Malta and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pakistani Ambassador to China, Masood Khalid, told The Global Times : "Our cooperation is very broad and is expanding, so we are happy. We are confident that as we move forward, we will see more tangible progress in our cooper...