CHINA-NPC: CHINA PLANS NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORK FOR 2035 WHICH MENTIONS A NEPAL-INDIA-CHINA ROUTE AND BCIM

Xinhua (February 24) disclosed that the CCP CC and State Council had recently issued the "National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline". The National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network connects all county-level and above administrative regions, border ports, defense facilities, and major scenic spots across the country. It aims at building a national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with railways as the backbone, roads as the foundation, and the comparative advantages of water transportation and civil aviation. Xinhua said that by 2035, the total physical line network of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network will total about 700,000 kilometres (excluding the overseas section of the international land corridor, air and sea routes, and postal routes). Among them, there are about 200,000 kilometres of railways, about 460,000 kilometres of roads, and about 25,000 kilometres of high-grade waterways. There are 27 major coastal ports, 36 major inland river ports, about 400 civil transportation airports, and about 80 postal express hubs. It also proposes improving the global transportation network and trying to develop a fully functional, three-dimensional interconnected, land-sea-air transportation network. It said the focus will be on building 7 international land transportation channels including the New Asia-Europe Land Bridge, China-Mongolia-Russia, China-Central Asia-West Asia, China-Indochina Peninsula, China Pakistan, China, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar. It also referred to strengthening the 4 maritime international transportation channels, including the Pacific Ocean to the Americas via Japan and South Korea; Southeast Asia to Oceania; Southeast Asia and South Asia across the Indian Ocean to Europe and Africa; and the Ice Silk Road across the Arctic Ocean to protect crude oil, Iron ore, grain, liquefied natural gas and other national key materials.  

(Comment: This report confirms that China has not given up on its plans for the CPEC, BCIM and the Trans-Himalayan China-Nepal Corridor.)







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