提起对外关系,有一个人不能忘记,这就是汉代的张骞。两千一百多年前,他主动请缨,冒着很大的危险,从长安出发,到达西域许多国家,介绍中华文明,了解域外情况,为东西方经济文化交流作出了重大的贡献。历史上著名的“张骞通西域”说的就是这件事。西域这个地理概念,有广义与狭义之分。狭义指的是,葱岭(今帕米尔)以东,玉门关以西,昆仑山以北,天山周边的广大地区:广义则包括葱岭以西, Mentioning foreign relations, one can not forget that this is the Han Zhang Qian. He started his journey from Chang’an to many countries in the Western Regions to introduce the Chinese civilization and understand the situation outside the territory. He made great contributions to the economic and cultural exchanges between the East and the West. The famous “Zhang Qian Tong Western Regions” said that is the case. The geographical concept of the Western Regions, there are broad and narrow points. Narrow sense refers to the east of Congling (now Pamir), west of Yumen Pass, north of Kunlun Mountains, vast areas around Tianshan Mountains: broadly including the west of Congling,