CGTN: How China-proposed BRI helps incense-makers go global

BEIJING, March 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Pu Lianggong knows the art of incense-making, just like his Arab ancestors. Now nearly 70 years old, Pu produces incense in Yongchun County in Quanzhou, a coastal city in east China's Fujian Province. The incense-making craft has its roots in the ancient Maritime Silk Road, which served as a vital conduit for both trade and cultural exchange between China's southeastern coastal regions and foreign countries. Pu belongs to a 10th-generation family of Arab descent who settled in Quanzhou, known as the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, in 1646. As China's seaborne…