China reopens border crossing with Nepal

[TaiShang]

China reopens border crossing with Nepal

China has reopened a border crossing with Nepal that had been closed since spring after being damaged during an earthquake.

• POSTED: 15 Oct 2015 17:25
  

This aerial picture taken on April 27, 2015 shows an earthquake damaged road from Jilong township to Rasog township, where the border crossing to Nepal is located, in Jilong, southwest China's Tibet region. (Photo: AFP)

BEIJING: China has reopened a border crossing with Nepal that had been closed since spring after being damaged during an earthquake, China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday (Oct 15).

The Himalayan nation has faced problems bringing in supplies of food and fuel as routes from India have been blocked by protesters opposing Nepal's new constitution.

The Nepali government had asked China to hasten the reopening of two border crossings. They have been closed since two earthquakes killed more than 9,000 people in Nepal in April.

"The China-Nepal Jilong border crossing that was damaged during the Nepal earthquake at present has reopened," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing.

"As far as I know, today the Chinese side through this border has already transferred a supply of aid goods and materials," she said, adding that China would continue to send aid based on Nepal's needs.

Nepal is sandwiched between India and China, which themselves have a festering border dispute. The two Asian giants have used aid and investment to court Kathmandu for years. China is also a close ally of Pakistan, India's neighbour and arch-rival.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

"As far as I know, today the Chinese side through this border has already transferred a supply of aid goods and materials," she said, adding that China would continue to send aid based on Nepal's needs.

Excellent. Add Nepal to the list of our close partners in South Asia.

 

[opruh]

Into the arms of the peaceful Panda.

 

[ito]

Nepal has to come the Indian way. It has no other option.

 

[Dungeness]

China reopens border crossing with Nepal

China has reopened a border crossing with Nepal that had been closed since spring after being damaged during an earthquake.

• POSTED: 15 Oct 2015 17:25

This aerial picture taken on April 27, 2015 shows an earthquake damaged road from Jilong township to Rasog township, where the border crossing to Nepal is located, in Jilong, southwest China's Tibet region. (Photo: AFP)

BEIJING: China has reopened a border crossing with Nepal that had been closed since spring after being damaged during an earthquake, China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday (Oct 15).

The Himalayan nation has faced problems bringing in supplies of food and fuel as routes from India have been blocked by protesters opposing Nepal's new constitution.

The Nepali government had asked China to hasten the reopening of two border crossings. They have been closed since two earthquakes killed more than 9,000 people in Nepal in April.

"The China-Nepal Jilong border crossing that was damaged during the Nepal earthquake at present has reopened," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing.

"As far as I know, today the Chinese side through this border has already transferred a supply of aid goods and materials," she said, adding that China would continue to send aid based on Nepal's needs.

Nepal is sandwiched between India and China, which themselves have a festering border dispute. The two Asian giants have used aid and investment to court Kathmandu for years. China is also a close ally of Pakistan, India's neighbour and arch-rival.

China should have done this weeks earlier when India "unofficially" blocked all shipments entering Nepal in attempt to bring the tiny landlocked country to its knee.

 

[TaiShang]

China should have done this weeks earlier when India "unofficially" blocked all shipments entering Nepal in attempt to bring the tiny landlocked country to its knee.

As far as I know, China started the construction work soon after the earthquake. But the conditions have been rather unwelcome. Even the above image shows the scale.

In any case, China needs to strengthen communication with the neighbor and find ways to ensure that economic interactions never cease even in the event of a disaster.

Also，another interesting development:

Nepal′s parliament elects communist party leader KP Oli as new prime minister | News | DW.COM | 11.10.2015

 

[Dungeness]

As far as I know, China started the construction work soon after the earthquake. But the conditions have been rather unwelcome. Even the above image shows the scale.

In any case, China needs to strengthen communication with the neighbor and find ways to ensure that economic interactions never cease even in the event of a disaster.

Also，another interesting development:

Nepal′s parliament elects communist party leader KP Oli as new prime minister | News | DW.COM | 11.10.2015

The Engineering Corp of the Armed Police started working on that stretch high way right after the earth quake. It just took a little too long.

 

[TaiShang]

India is going to be another ... India.

Note: Please do not engage Indians and feel for them for being ... Indian.

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On topic:

On Tuesday, authorities reopened the high-altitude Jilung crossing linking Nepal with southwestern Tibet, which is generally used for bringing Chinese clothing, furniture, electronic goods and household items into Nepal, the point’s management committee head, Sun Lijun, told China’s official Xinhua News Agency. (WP)

 

[TianyaTaiwan]

I hope the qinghai-tibet railway can extend to Kathmandu as soon as possible.

 

[cyrusthevirus]

I hope the qinghai-tibet railway can extend to Kathmandu as soon as possible.

Yeah. You think Nepalese people have money to buy ticket on high speed rail.

 

[TaiShang]

I hope the qinghai-tibet railway can extend to Kathmandu as soon as possible.

It will.

Qinghai-Tibet railway to reach Nepal in 2020
2015-04-07 15:13

The 253-km railway line links Lhasa and Xigaze is officially put into use on Aug 15, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]

China has announced that it will extend the Qinghai-Tibet railway to the border areas with Nepal within the next five years. The railway will stretch out for another 540 kilometers from Xigaze to Jilong county which sits on the border of China and Nepal.

The announcement was made earlier this month during Neapalese President Ram Baran Yadav's visit to China.

President Yadav applauded the announcement, saying that it fitted into the main aim of his visit which was to promote road and air traffic between Nepal and China.

Nepal has long been expecting that a new Tibetan railway which would extend to the border areas to boost bilateral trade and tourism between the two countries.

Nepal is an important transit point between China and South Asia, and a major chunk of the two countries' expanding trade has been conducted through Tibet. With this newly announced Xigaze-to-Jilong section of the railway in five years, better road and rail connections could be expected between Nepal and China.

Earlier in March when Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav at the 2015 Boao Forum for Asia in south China's Hainan province, the Nepalese President said that Nepal will support China's initiatives of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road as well as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, or AIIB, saying that these are great measures to promote regional connectivity.

Moreover, Nepal also calls for strengthened cooperation between the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, and China, in a bid to promote regional interconnectivity and economic development.

 

[cirr]

This is opportune time to fast-track the two proposed railways（Shtgatse-Zhangmu and Shigatse-Gyirong）to Nepal。

 

[navtrek]

Nepal has to come the Indian way. It has no other option.

There is lot of arrogance in this reply. This is what is costing our ties with all our neighbours. In simple bullying.

 

[ito]

There is lot of arrogance in this reply. This is what is costing our ties with all our neighbours. In simple bullying.

Nepali government has always two timed India. It has used China card knowing that it would spite India. It is a fact that Chinese side is inhospitable and connecting Nepal to China is not that easy and too costly to be practicable.

 

[Razia Sultana]

Nepali government has always two timed India. It has used China card knowing that it would spite India. It is a fact that Chinese side is inhospitable and connecting Nepal to China is not that easy and too costly to be practicable.

Nepal is a sovereign country to have her own independent foreign policy. Being sandwiched between two giant nations is not easy to side with just one. Some of us indians fail to recognize that. Today, no region on earth is inhospitable. We have as much trade with US as much with China, then why we expect Nepal to be our backyard. Somehow India always messes up with Nepal. Even we did good work after earthquake our loudmouth media spoiled all the goodwill.