CHINA-INTERNAL: STRATEGIC RAILWAY TO NYINGCHI

 China's official news agency Xinhua reported on November 5, 2014, that China had approved construction of a new strategically important high altitude railway line from Lhasa to Nyingchi in Tibet costing about USD 6 billion.

Nyingchi is close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. The plan to construct railway line linking Lhasa to Nyingchi in the east was first announced in August 2014. According to the plan approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Lhasa to Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet railway runs 402-km long. The designed speed for passenger trains will be 160 km per hour. The line will have a cargo capacity of 10 million tonnes per year.






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