ラサとネパールを結ぶ鉄道建設開始

チベットのラサとネパール国境のカサkhasaを結ぶ鉄道が5年後の完成を目指し建設を開始した。完成のあかつきにはネパール経済のインド依頼が大幅に軽減される。中国とネパールの国境の町カサからカトマンズまでは80キロの距離。

China has started to build a rail link between Tibet and Nepal that could drastically reduce Kathmandu's trade reliance on its giant southern neighbour India, officials said Saturday. Beijing is bringing the railway line from Lhasa -- the capital of troubled Chinese-controlled Tibet -- to Khasa, a town along the Nepal-China border, Aditya Baral, the Nepalese premier's foreign affairs adviser, told AFP.

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