The Silk Road Week 2025 opened on July 11 at the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, under the theme "Silk Ties the Ages, Roads Network the World".

This year's event highlights North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region as the guest province and Brazil as the guest country.

As one of the event's major highlights, an exhibition titled Verdant Miles: The Steppe Silk Road in the 10th to 12th Century also opened on the first day.

Featuring 181 cultural relics from six institutions in Inner Mongolia, the exhibition showcases the region's rich archaeological finds – such as artifacts unearthed from the site of the Upper Capital of Liao Dynasty (916-1125) – and explores the cultural exchanges and integration along the ancient Grassland Silk Road, offering a vivid exploration of China's pluralistic civilization.