Nepal to build highway to link with China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-29 08:45
A senior government official has said that Nepal is set to construct highway
to link Nepal with Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China, with the help of the
Chinese government, state run Radio Nepal reported on Sunday.
"With the
help of the Chinese government, we are going to start construction of the
much-hyped Syafrubesi-Rasuwagadhi highway this year," the radio quoted Ram
Sharan Mahat, finance minister of Nepal, as saying.
In order to shore up
bilateral trade with China, the government is set to start construction of the
highway, Mahat said at the 6th annual general meeting of Nepal Trans Himalayan
Border Trade Association, a non-government organization which has trade relation
only with China.
There is 115-km-long Araniko Highway in operation, the
only one highway that links Nepali capital Kathmandu with TAR.
"The
government has also plan to link that highway with the Prithvi Highway, one of
the major highways of Nepal that links capital Kathmandu with other parts of the
county, with assistance of Asian Development Bank," Mahat
said.
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