According to Chinese media, the 253-kilometer-long railway project that aims to link the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to the region’s second largest city, Xigaze, will take about four years to complete. [break]
Xigaze, located to the southwest of Lhasa, lies at the foot of Mount Everest and borders Nepal.
China says the extension of the railway is a key project in the country´s long and medium-term railway network expansion and will speed up Tibet’s social and economic development.
A railway project that will link Lhasa to the eastern Tibet city of Nyingchi and another route to Nepal border are currently in the planning phase. In October last year, Nepal had urged China to extend the Beijing-Lhasa railway line till Kathmandu.
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