CGTN published this video item, entitled “Interview: National Museum of Afghan remains bastion of country’s rich heritage despite conflict” – below is their description.
Mohamad Fahim Rahimi is the curator of the National Museum of Afghanistan. From 2006, he has traveled to different countries with many priceless Afghan artifacts and arrived in China in 2017. Recently Rahimi expressed to CGTN his desire to present Afghanistan’s culture and history to the world.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.
China is the third largest country in the world by area and the largest country in the world by population. Properly known as the People’s Republic of China, the political territory of the country includes Tibet and Hong Kong. The capital is Beijing.