“Silk Road” is the most important ancient trade route that linked China with foreign countries, and also a way of a communication and cooperation between the east and the west civilizations. In this passageway, the ancient China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, Roman and many other civilizations met, communicated, integrated and formed a unique phenomenon of the Silk Road culture.

Astronomy, as one of the earliest natural sciences in the mankind history, has the commonness of human knowledge. Eastern and western astronomy play important roles in their respective culture development.When the “Silk Road” opened in two thousand years before, eastern and western astronomy knowledge have already spread and communicated in the Silk Road.

It is our great honor to welcome you to the 2nd Astronomical Silk Road: International Workshop on Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in China and Central Asia.. In this symposium, we are going to discuss the ancient astronomical documents on the Silk Road, the spread of astronomical knowledge between eastern and western, eastern and western astronomy and the western civilization and the history of astronomy of minority nationalities in Xinjiang etc.