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This five-episode documentary series, "The Pamirs Today", reveals a diversity of cultures in the unique region, but also a commonality of values, dreams and hopes shared by people in its different countries. It recounts their efforts and perseverance in seeking a better life for their families, and above all, the opportunities brought about by the BRI.
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00:00Lying at the boundary between Central Asia, East Asia and South Asia, the Pamir mountain
00:06range is one of the world's highest. As such, it forms the largest geographical barrier
00:12along the route of the ancient Silk Road that has historically connected China with the
00:18Western world.
00:29Throughout its long history, the role of the Pamir region as a strategic trading route
00:35has subjected it to the influence of numerous outside cultures, many of which have left their
00:40mark.
00:45At the crossroads of a continent, this inspiring land on the roof of the world is itself the
00:51meeting point between different worlds.
00:58At the crossroads of a continent, this is a place where the world's highest.
01:05At the crossroads of a continent, this is a place where the world's highest.
01:10The
01:12Nose
01:13I start pen sketching since childhood around 7-8 years old.
01:36When I paint, I was feeling free, happy, like this.
01:52I was not that good in study, but I like painting and sketching,
01:58so I changed my field.
02:00I come to fine arts.
02:03Shaheed is 29 years old.
02:04After graduating from the University of Peshawar with a major in fine arts,
02:08he spent a few years in southern Pakistan,
02:11then returned to his hometown in northern Pakistan's Hunza Valley.
02:15I mostly painted watercolour, like freestyle, not too much detail.
02:21It is free work.
02:24The sky is very blue, and the mountain brown and bright colours,
02:29and the shadow and the crops, they have different colours.
02:32They have many colours.
02:33The culture, the people of Hunza, and the landscape is very beautiful.
02:42Shaheed's home region of Hunza Valley lies in the centre of the Pamir Range,
02:47where Pakistan borders Afghanistan and China.
02:51The valley floor has an elevation of 2,400 metres above sea level,
02:55and it is surrounded by seven mountains with peaks at over 7,000 metres.
03:00Dramatic geography made this place isolated historically.
03:05It wasn't until 1986, when the Karakoram Highway officially opened,
03:10assisted by funding from China,
03:13that Hunza Valley was connected to the outside world.
03:16The road is also known as the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway.
03:20The Hunza Valley is long and narrow with fertile soil.
03:33Most of its residents farm for a living.
03:35A hand accustomed to delicate brushwork is not suited to using a scythe.
03:56Shaheed did not find a suitable job in the city,
03:59so he has returned to his home town to live with his brother.
04:03Sometimes, somehow, he is a tired man.
04:08Shaheed gets fed up with working in the field,
04:11and his work there leaves his brother dissatisfied.
04:13He can't work in the field like this.
04:19Uh, artists in the field never do.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Okay.
04:26But he is doing these things.
04:29Job opportunities for young people like Shaheed in mountain villages are limited.
04:47In the village next door, 27-year-old Tariq had similar problems.
04:52My hometown name is Pasu.
04:56They are all rocky mountains.
04:59I've always wanted to, uh, live my life between these mountains
05:03because I have grown up here.
05:05But the economical condition, they don't allow me to stay here
05:09because to earn money, this place is not good.
05:13I want to go to a bigger place
05:15where I can find more opportunities to have a good life.
05:21Today, young people in Hunza have more options.
05:27Many choose to go across the mountains to China.
05:33Tariq has come even farther.
05:35His destination has been the capital, Beijing.
05:38He must be the capital of the Chinese,
05:41and the Chinese should be the capital of the Chinese.
05:44Some people in China have become different.
05:46He must be the capital of the Chinese.
05:48Five thousand kilometers from his hometown,
05:50Tariq now studies as an exchange student.
05:52So this is our basic class,
05:54and they are teaching us the basics of Chinese.
05:57Life in the big city is completely different from Han Zewai.
06:06Welcome to my place.
06:08This is in Beijing.
06:11This building is called White Building.
06:14Although it's not white, it is red.
06:17The TV, tables, refrigerator, the sofa, my books.
06:23It's all Chinese books.
06:25Let me show you a new jiao chang.
06:28My friend, professor, nice guy.
06:31Well, my roommate is a good guy.
06:32We usually cook together, we don't fight.
06:35You can not call me Tariq anymore.
06:37I'm Li Da in China.
06:39So you can call me Li Da.
06:48Meanwhile, north of the Hunza Valley, on the other side of the Pamir Mountains,
06:55this is prata actually using for morning breakfast.
07:02Just very simple.
07:05Just plain.
07:08What we can say this.
07:09It's done.
07:10If all you burn like a red color, it's like a wood.
07:17Like this.
07:1842-year-old Robert has been a cook for 25 years.
07:22He's from Gulkin village in Hunza Valley.
07:25At that time, this beginning, the starting is very difficult.
07:30When Robert was 17, he left his home for the coastal city of Karachi,
07:351500 kilometers away, to work in a hotel.
07:38It's a really, very tough job.
07:40Trays and plates.
07:42Eight hours we're working, but it looks like 24 hours.
07:50In 2013, through a personal connection, Robert had a chance to work as a head cook in China.
07:55But after waiting for a long time, the opportunity never got off the ground.
08:00You can't get a job here.
08:02Your heart is just pumping out what's happening with me.
08:09At that time, I'm just afraid and thinking a lot about my future,
08:14about my family and about my kids.
08:18Today, in Xinjiang's Tashkogun Tajik Autonomous County,
08:25on the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway,
08:28Robert runs a restaurant called Eagle Nest Coffee Room.
08:31As well as being its owner, he's the only employee.
08:35If you have your own restaurant, it depends on you,
08:39how you can give a good thing to your guest,
08:44and your guest is happy with you.
08:46I am a small, small, small businessman.
08:52Whether inside or outside his business, buying supplies or cooking,
08:56Robert is highly accustomed to his life and work in China.
09:00It's complimentary for me.
09:03It's good. It's complimentary.
09:05I'm not paying for this.
09:07This and two more this.
09:10One, two.
09:12This is a gift.
09:13Every day I am doing like this.
09:15Three things, it's free for me.
09:18Come on, pull.
09:28Coming out here.
09:30So this is my special seat like this, enjoying the weather and the atmosphere of Tashkogun.
09:38Right next to the restaurant is the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway.
09:43At the other end of the road, 230 kilometers away through the Hunza Valley, is Robert's hometown.
09:49Five or six hours, we can reach Pakistan on this road.
09:54The China-Pakistan Friendship Highway has now been open for 40 years.
10:01It's an important artery for commerce between the two countries.
10:04Many people, like Robert, have chosen to take the road north and earn a living in China.
10:13All kids, my wife, all is in Pakistan. I am alone here.
10:20Sometime homesick.
10:22The China-Pakistan Friendship Highway begins in Kashgar in China's western region of Xinjiang,
10:30and continues south for a total of 1,032 kilometers.
10:34The elevation along the route varies by as much as 4,300 meters.
10:39It passes through the entire Pamir mountain range, connecting China with Pakistan.
10:43In contrast with China's rapid development, Hunza Valley's economy has historically lacked vitality,
10:50and young people there are underemployed.
10:53At home, the young artist Shahid's situation is an awkward topic.
10:56My brother asks from me, what are you doing for a long-term village?
11:09And what is your future plan?
11:12I have no answer.
11:16My brother asks from me, what are you doing for a long-term village?
11:20And what is your future plan?
11:24I have no answer to give him, because I have no answer, really.
11:34Hunza Valley is several hundred kilometers in length.
11:38The region it lies in has an area of about 7,900 square kilometers, but a population of only 30,000.
11:44To Shahid, in this remote mountain area located far from any city,
11:50making a living from art is an enormous challenge.
11:53I can't fulfill my dreams in this village, but I don't know where to go.
11:59I don't know.
12:09Now 27 years old, Tariq always wanted to go abroad.
12:12After leaving his hometown in Hunza Valley, he has come to study in Beijing.
12:17Now 5,000 kilometers away from my home.
12:21So this place is totally different.
12:23Before coming to China, Tariq finished university in Pakistan.
12:27He graduated with a major in textiles, then held a nine-to-five job at a clothing company for three years.
12:34I was trapped with the job.
12:36I just realized that I don't have any social life.
12:39So that's why I quit the job.
12:43Tariq rethought his career plan and decided to come to Beijing Foreign Studies University to learn Chinese.
12:52The other students talk about their future plans with confidence, yet Tariq is still hesitant.
13:01Yemi, what are you planning after the graduation?
13:02I'll continue my studies. I mean, doing masters.
13:03You will continue with Chinese, your masters?
13:04You will continue with Chinese, your masters?
13:05And then another one is like, maybe I will find a job.
13:06Right now, I've started my studies.
13:07You will continue with Chinese, your masters?
13:08And then another one is like, maybe I will find a job.
13:09Right now, I've started learning Chinese, but I don't know what it is.
13:10I will continue with Chinese, your masters.
13:11And then another one is like, maybe I will find a job.
13:12Right now, I have started learning Chinese, but I don't know what I will do after I graduate from
13:18Yemi.
13:19And then another one is like, maybe I will find a job.
13:21Right now, I'll start learning Chinese, but I don't know what I will do after I graduate from him.
13:22I mean doing masters.
13:24You will continue with Chinese, your masters?
13:27And then another one is like maybe I will find a job.
13:32Right now I start learning Chinese, but I don't know what I will do after I graduate.
13:41I think you don't need to take it seriously because you have a lot of time.
13:46So you have to take it easy. You don't need to be hurt.
13:50I'm not sure about anything right now.
13:53I think we didn't get a good conclusion.
13:56It's time to sleep.
13:59So have a good night. Good night, bro.
14:05Finding a job is not that much difficult, but I want something, not just a job.
14:11I think a lot. I even have a lot of sleepless nights.
14:20I don't know.
14:26Eaglenest coffee room is closed today.
14:28The owner and cook, Robert, has decided to take a quick trip home to Hunza.
14:32Good weather, good atmosphere and good friends.
14:40And I think the way is also going good for us.
14:45Rahmat, one and a half hour we go back to Pakistan, my homeland. Thank you, everyone.
14:58Please evaluate for my Sunday.
15:03Okay.
15:04Wish you a happy journey.
15:05Okay, thank you.
15:06This road that Robert and his fellow countrymen are taking roughly corresponds to the ancient Silk Road that wound its way through the mountains.
15:13Throughout history, countless traders and adventurers have traveled by this route.
15:24Daily necessities, home electronics, farming tools, renovation materials, all kinds of products pass through here to reach the other side of the border.
15:57At noon, the international bus departs as scheduled, heading from China to Pakistan.
16:02In the past, travelling by this route was a long and arduous undertaking.
16:06Today, the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway has made a once difficult trip quite enjoyable.
16:15At 3pm, the international bus arrives at the highest point on the highway, Kunjurab Pass, at an elevation of 4,733 metres.
16:27Once over the international border, the Pamir Mountains begin to show their more precipitous side.
16:39I like this weather, but it's a little bit cold for me, so that's why I have a cot.
16:52Following the Hunza Valley, continuing south, passing through mountains and over rivers,
16:56past grasslands and remote villages, the elevation gradually drops to 2,000 metres.
17:02Finally, home is not far away.
17:09Robert's wife, Nassab, has been waiting patiently on the doorstep for her husband to return.
17:14It is a landscape. It's my own village. I painted it.
17:29This is also watercolour. This is Baltic Fort, which is famous in Hunza Valley, sharp and diffuse area.
17:46There's a technique of watercolour.
17:48Shaheed, who is still in Hunza Valley, is living with his whole family.
17:52He is sleeping in the living room, so he has no space of his own.
17:57He hasn't painted for quite some time now.
18:00My whole family live here. My fathers and my brothers, we live together here.
18:06We have joint family. The people can disturb from me.
18:09I mostly work at night, so I can't work here. There is no such a space for me where I work.
18:19there is no such a space where I work.
18:31What are you doing?
18:33People, how are you doing?
18:35We are at a store in Al-Zemindor.
18:36You cannot have a store in margin, which is a very small world.
18:39I am going to have a store in Al-Zemindor.
18:41No, I am going to have a store in a store in Al-Zemindor.
18:44Here, as well, I am going to have a store in Al-Zemindor.
18:48He is a very talented artist.
18:54He is the first artist in our village.
18:58So he was the time here.
19:00I am a lot of serious.
19:05He is a very talented artist, he is the first artist in our village.
19:12So he was the time here.
19:17Shahid knows he can't stay in the village any longer.
19:19He has to make a change.
19:24I didn't like the talk between my uncle and my brother, but they might be right.
19:31I must go and see something in the down cities.
19:37From Shahid's home village, following the China-Pakistan friendship highway south for
19:41half an hour brings him to the most populous and bustling city in the Hunza region, Karimabad.
19:54Shahid plans to rent an apartment at the public market, an open and art studio.
20:02After viewing several places, he finally finds one to his liking.
20:17This is the main bazaar, but this making is his glasses.
20:22The location and the view, it is perfect.
20:25I like it.
20:26I will paint here, also I will teach a student here, and from them I will earn some money.
20:33Take 10 students.
20:34I feel great.
20:35It's perfect.
20:36Sir, this is the main place.
20:40What will be the rent?
20:41Sir, this place is a good place, 30,000.
20:45Oh.
20:46Any discount for me, because I am starting?
20:48No, this is too much expensive.
20:50I have no much money.
20:51No, this making building is too much expensive.
20:54Give me offer for 40,000.
20:56Maybe other people come to, I give to 35,000.
20:59The upshot is that Shahid can't afford this apartment, so his studio plan ends here.
21:29Robert, the cook, works away from home all year.
21:49While he is away, the small piece of land his family owns is tended completely by his wife,
21:54Nasab, to fulfill their family's daily needs.
21:57Onion, tomato, and some carrot, and potato, lettuce.
22:03All these are, my wife is responsible, her carrying the feed.
22:10She is getting five o'clock, sometimes four o'clock.
22:15It's very early.
22:16Everything is doing for us.
22:18They are things that they're not answers.
22:20They don't have taste, they don't bad.
22:22They make the food.
22:23They have tasty ones.
22:24They eat fruit.
22:25They don't have taste.
22:27It's nice.
22:29It's good to eat.
22:30Get one.
22:35cooking for other people for 20 years upon returning home Robert can stand
22:50aside while someone else does the cooking she's making food and I just
22:56taking food for me and my wife also so this is we can see it's love
23:04each other it was not until his wedding at the age of 20 that Robert officially met
23:19his wife Nassau for the first time first time I want to see my wife in this picture you see
23:29I and my eyes is like want to see you but there I just opened the cover it's 23 years before you
23:40like Joel good girl everyone is say you are the king it's a very unique day for me and me also
23:50really slim and smart but right now I'm little bit heavy it's okay it's no problem not long after
24:11their wedding Robert departed from his wife and headed to Karachi in the south where he would
24:15continue his career path at that time the love is very strong and the night she's crying why you
24:23go where you go you must be say one more days you know and the morning time she's coming with me the
24:30road kicking each road is little bit far from my hometown so we go together or there and she's crying
24:36and not talking with me like she's nervous and say alone what can I do like this and that but I just
24:46say it's not a big issue within two months or three months so maybe I'm coming back
24:50Robert's promise to return proved difficult to keep over the two decades since Robert has spent less than a
25:01month at home with his wife each year and just like 20 years ago Nassab is still the same each time
25:07wanting him to stay a few more days the doctor to burr Allah clicking try to strengthen your opening out
25:28check everyone who leaves their hometown has their own reasons for doing so
25:48help knew the most
25:51we are all travelers in one way or another in search of a truth
26:18a light that will lead us in our quest
26:23adventures that will fill our spirit and soul
26:29an exploration beyond what can ever be imagined
26:48and so
26:51and so
26:55and so
26:59Shahid, the painter, is still at a dead end in his career.
27:26When chatting with his friends, he can't avoid this topic.
27:56My friend was asking me to quit your field.
28:02It's hard for me.
28:05I love my work.
28:06It's my passion.
28:08Really, I don't want to quit my dreams.
28:12But it seems I have no choice.
28:14It's hard for me to quit my kids.
28:22Although he doesn't want to abandon art, Shahid eventually decides to compromise and considers
28:27asking for help.
28:28I can't believe it.
28:30Come on.
28:36We have the idea of the art and we have the idea of it.
28:43We are in China with James Shope.
28:47It is their partner.
28:51I have a trustee of them.
28:56On the other side of the Pamir Mountains, a new opportunity now awaits Shaheed.
29:24Shaheed packs up his art supplies and prepares to go abroad for the first time,
29:28where he will start a new life full of uncertainty.
29:54After transferring at the border, China is just past the Pamir Mountains.
30:10What was the Silk Road in ancient times is now a highway, still connecting the lives of people in different regions.
30:21Shaheed is now a traveler on it.
30:31Once the Kunjurab Pass at an elevation of 4,733 meters comes into view, Shaheed has arrived in China.
30:41On the commercial street of Tashkogun, Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang, many gem shops run by people from Pakistan can be seen.
30:49The Silk Road is also a gem road of sorts.
30:52Natural gemstones from southern Asia and Afghanistan are brought to China via the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway.
30:59Shaheed's new job is as a salesperson at a gem shop.
31:06Having majored in fine arts, Shaheed knows nothing about gemstones or business and must learn everything from scratch.
31:14The price is a little bit. The size and the cut, polish and everything might be confused.
31:22These are tourmalines. This is also tourmaline.
31:25So the size is bigger, the color is okay, it's transparent and so.
31:29Big price difference, so you have to understand this.
31:32This is 2,000 per carat and this is 20 per carat.
31:36Aquamarine, which is called khailan here.
31:40You have to understand the Chinese also. This color is 800 to 900 per carat and these are 400 to 500 per carat.
31:48A tourmaline. Don't mix it with quartz.
31:51You have to take care about the size, color and many things.
31:55By tomorrow, you have to do it by yourself.
31:58Okay.
31:59Okay.
32:00Three things. You should know each and every product and the prices.
32:04Get ready for bargaining, smiling. Understand?
32:10How much are you doing?
32:11How much are you doing?
32:12Because of the Russian, you have to do it by yourself.
32:16Meanwhile, in Beijing, the weekend has arrived.
32:19In the student kitchen, Tariq is making his friends some food from his hometown.
32:24We are making karaii.
32:27Typically, chicken karaii is made from the pot.
32:33Yay!
32:35You're good.
32:37This is chicken.
32:39Yes, it's good.
32:41Your cooking is really good.
32:43Really?
32:44Really, really.
32:46You have a lot of students around the world.
32:49You're really good.
32:51I also think that's it.
32:53When you start school,
32:55I'm the first time to come to your family.
32:59It's so good.
33:01Yeah, my friends, they usually say these things to me
33:06whenever we are cooking.
33:08I also want to do this.
33:11And they always say that,
33:13why don't you open a restaurant?
33:15Do you think it's really good?
33:16It's really good.
33:17We can spend a lot of money.
33:20The encouragement from his friends
33:21gives Tariq some motivation.
33:23Yes, yes.
33:25Yeah, maybe it's a good idea.
33:27Who knows?
33:28Gambe!
33:32What do you think,
33:34like doing a business or opening a restaurant?
33:38I know you are good at English,
33:40good at Chinese,
33:41and you have a lot of experience with the office work.
33:45So that's why I'll prefer to you
33:47to do the office work.
33:49It's better for you.
33:50I've come to China just to do something else, man.
33:54I don't want to go to the office again,
33:57like coming to China and then no need to go to office.
33:59Yeah, I can understand.
34:01But you know, if you are doing business,
34:02you have to expense a lot of money.
34:05If you didn't earn that much, then what you can do?
34:10This is the question.
34:14Let's see what happens, right?
34:17So you have to think about it.
34:18Tariq wants to know more about the ins and outs of running a restaurant.
34:33At this Pakistani restaurant in Beijing,
34:36he can enjoy some familiar cuisine from his hometown,
34:39and he asks the owner for some business advice.
34:42I don't know if you want to continue to work,
34:45or if you want to do your own business.
34:47Work or do your own business.
34:49So we always discuss these issues.
34:53So at the end, I chose to do your own business.
34:57You want to do your own business?
34:58I also encourage you to join our business.
35:01The most important thing is your own business.
35:04And you have to control your own business.
35:07The encouragement from the restaurant owner has left Tariq thinking big,
35:36but reality brings him back down to earth.
35:40The restaurant owner didn't give me any figure of the investment,
35:44but I can see that it's a huge investment in Beijing.
35:51It needs more time because you need a lot of investment.
35:54It needs more time because it's a huge investment in Beijing.
36:02After returning to campus, one of Tariq's classmates gives him a more feasible suggestion
36:07to first open a restaurant in his hometown.
36:09If you want to go to Beijing, you can go to Beijing and go to Beijing.
36:15That's all right.
36:16You can only do your own business.
36:17You can only do your own business.
36:20I think it's a bit funny because like before I wanted to go to a big city to do something,
36:26but right now I'm in a big city and I have to go back to my own town
36:32and start with a small startup.
36:47Meanwhile, in Tashkurga and Tajik Autonomous County in the Pamir Mountains,
36:51Shaheed is working hard to adapt to his new job as a dual salesperson.
36:55This is Emerald, gemstone, Emerald.
37:08Emerald.
37:10In English, it is called Emerald.
37:11You can't say Chinese.
37:14First of all, language is a big issue for me.
37:17I can't understand Chinese.
37:19They have Chinese names, I can't, I don't know.
37:40And she wants to buy it, but I have no idea about the stone,
37:44what will be and what is the threat.
37:46I have no idea about the price.
37:48This one is cheaper, this is very cheap.
37:57I'll make this cheap for you.
37:59I think today the boss is not satisfied with me because I make a mistake and give a wrong price.
38:09You make a money.
38:10This is a cheap for me.
38:11This is a cheap for me.
38:12This is a cheap for me.
38:13This is a cheap for me.
38:14This is a cheap for me.
38:15I think today the boss is not satisfied with me because I make a mistake and give a wrong price.
38:22You are not remembering the prices.
38:37I know that you don't like this sales work to change your field, you know, because you are an artist.
38:51It's not so easy to survive.
38:53So if you do mistake again and again, it's possible you can't work here and go back home.
39:02Do you understand now? Do you understand what I said?
39:05Yeah, of course.
39:22In the summer, Hunza Valley's Gulcan village is alive with activity.
39:30But Robert is in no mood to relax and enjoy life in his hometown.
39:34He's planning to go back to China soon to look after his restaurant and has already reserved his return bus ticket.
39:46This big house, it's about my kids.
39:50If my kids are here, it's a happy house and we are very proud.
39:57Robert and his wife have four children.
40:00All of them study outside the village and three are already in university.
40:05And all is coming.
40:06We are just having food and it's the time.
40:11We can't imagine.
40:13Very proud and very, very happy time.
40:17Middle of my kids.
40:19There is second position, second position, first position.
40:23Lots of here.
40:24When Robert was young, due to his family's lack of money, he had to drop out of university.
40:32Now, his greatest wish is to send all four of his children to university.
40:36With this goal, he can bear the loneliness of being separated from his family as he works hard away from home.
40:54Robert's short trip home is now over and he's heading back to China to run his restaurant.
41:03His wife, Nassab, wasn't able to get him to stay a few more days and sees him off at the village entrance without saying a word,
41:09just like every time they've said goodbye over the past 20 years.
41:1218 hours I'm working in my restaurant and I am alone.
41:24If they are growing, they are getting a good education and good quality education,
41:30then I can work 20 hours.
41:32It's all thing is nothing for me.
41:42After one month of training, Shahid is gradually becoming familiar with his job as a gym salesperson.
41:54Yeah, this one is beautiful.
41:56Try it.
41:59This one is a red bear.
42:01This is the original stone.
42:02Can you use this to be more便宜?
42:04Yeah.
42:06Yet the bear, the actual is of this.
42:12Okay.
42:20I know everything.
42:21The Chinese name, know the Chinese numbers.
42:25Now it is very easy for me.
42:27I am enjoying it because every day I meet different people.
42:34It's not that boring, it is good.
42:39I noticed you, you are doing well.
42:43One month is enough time to change a person.
42:45Shahid's progress has earned him recognition from Murad.
42:49We are preparing a restaurant and gemstone business in Sichuan.
42:57It's almost done.
42:58It's a touristic place.
43:00This is the office.
43:02Do you think, can you manage there?
43:04Because it's far away and different, different situation there.
43:10Yeah, I think I can manage it because I'm a bit experienced in the shop.
43:15I think I can do it better and I'm a bit confident now.
43:19Okay.
43:20And communicate a little bit with the people.
43:24Language wise there?
43:25Is it easy?
43:26Yeah, I can improve my language.
43:28Shahid has accepted the new position and sets out once again.
43:43This time, he's going even further.
43:50Looking back, it is a lot I have come through.
43:54At the beginning, I never thought that I would come to China,
43:57a country I knew little about.
44:00The language, the culture and the gemstone business are totally new for me.
44:14Now, I am getting even far away from my home.
44:19It may seem that I am leaving my painting career behind.
44:22However, sometimes I do feel closer to it.
44:35After arriving back in Tashkug and Tajik Autonomous County,
44:38Raber's life there is just like before.
44:41He rises early and manages his restaurant by himself.
44:47Before, I looked very ups and down in my life.
44:50Now, I am little bit settled in Tashkug and China.
44:56It's good for my future.
44:58This restaurant is good for my future.
45:09I mean, I'm sometimes I'm tired, but I don't care about...
45:15I'm doing something for my family.
45:18And I would like to do more.
45:22For summer vacation, Tariq is returning to his hometown in Hunza Valley.
45:50I'm very excited, I'm very happy to go home.
46:03Over the summer, he plans to initiate the business plan he's been formulating.
46:07I'm very excited, I'm very happy to go home.
46:10I'm going to try something new this year.
46:15So that's why I'm a bit excited for that.
46:17After returning home, Tariq and his brother plan to build a roadside restaurant on a piece of their land next to the China-Pakistan friendship highway.
46:45The restaurant location is right beside the Karakram highway.
46:52So here's the Karakram highway and the restaurant is here.
46:56And behind this small plateau, you can go to Paso Glacier.
47:04Before construction, it was a grass place.
47:22We have excreted this area, and we have decided to give it a name, York Grill.
47:31It is an outdoor restaurant.
47:32The beautiful mountains, they can enjoy the breeze.
47:37So I'm just thinking like that.
47:39With more people traveling along the highway, Tariq's project certainly has potential.
47:49For this restaurant to become reality, motivation from his classmates has played a big part.
47:54You always encourage me.
47:58If I don't have you, I can't open this restaurant.
48:04I just want to thank you.
48:07I hope everything is for you.
48:11Bye.
48:11Bye.
48:18Hunza Valley, Tariq's home, which he once wanted so much to leave, has now become a new beginning in his life.
48:33Give a man a road and he has direction.
48:36Not even the loftiest mountains can keep people from attaining their dreams.
48:41Their desire to travel and seek their fortunes, their longing for their families.
48:47Here, deep amid the Pamir mountains, each person has their own story to tell.
49:05So what they notice is, even the oceanfront city that audience is lucky to see,
49:12yet it has to be the市 of the buildings that what they do in their trying to represent.
49:15They Barre pocketed here in the public to move, buying people's happy in the city,
49:21listening karinoise on it, except for states.
49:24In the early winter of 2018, forest rangers in Zenda Township spotted two snow leopards
49:49on Bangduo Mountain.
49:59In the late afternoon, the leopards snuggled together using a yak they hunted down as shelter.
50:08They buried their heads into the yak's body during the snowstorm.
50:21Local rangers named them the Bangduo brothers and have been keeping track of them.
50:32The snow leopard is a representative species in the highland areas of Asia.
50:44They are found in 12 countries in Central Asia, as well as in the Tian Shan, Himalay and Hoxiu
50:51Mountains and other highlands in China.
50:58They live among rocks and usually hunt near the snow line or on ice covering rocks in
51:09the cold desert zones.
51:12Most of them are loners, except when they live in pairs during the mating season.
51:23One month later, some herders said that they had seen one of the brothers limping in the
51:42snow.
51:43Upon hearing this, staff of the county's forestry and grassland office was worried.
51:50They quickly organized 14 rangers for the rescue mission.
51:57Finally, after a week of searching, they found the seriously injured leopard.
52:12The snow leopard is an agile nocturnal animal that can easily hunt down blue sheep, Argali and
52:20many other highland animals.
52:23Even small animals like the Plateau Pica are not spared.
52:33Passing into the territory of another snow leopard and fighting for dominance had left it severely
52:40wounded.
52:41The rangers brought it to a temporary shelter in a herdsman's house.
52:52Being taken care of by the villagers, it got better day by day.
53:08The shelter wasn't well equipped to help the leopard recover quickly.
53:13After two months, people had to release it back to its natural habitat.
53:19The snow leopard dominates the Plateau food chain.
53:23It is regarded as the Prince of Snow Mountains.
53:27Yet there are constant threats to their survival.
53:46It is evaluated as a vulnerable species.
53:50They are fewer than the giant panda in China.
53:55Their protection is imminent.
54:07Nature reserves have been established.
54:09Other protection measures are also being promoted.
54:13In recent years, snow leopards become more active on the King Hei-Tibet Plateau.
54:21Hopefully, the species will be carefully protected as part of the larger effort to preserve
54:27the entire alpine ecosystem.
54:43the people that are like how many of these conditions are in the world's West in the world's region.
54:59In the area of Africa, the government is limited to the world's heritage and maintenance of the surrounding
55:01of the surrounding areas, to the Earth.
55:04Although it is directly the disease that gets longer than the Mount of Africa, it's more different in the
55:06other than the sea.
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