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finally will link with Indian railway net
@TaiShang Under Mt. Everest for real?
China may build rail tunnel under Mount Everest, state media reports | World news | The Guardian
China may build rail tunnel under Mount Everest, state media reports
Chinese expert says tunnel under consideration in bid to link China with Nepal by rail
Mount Everest at sunrise. According to state media China is in talks with Nepal to build a rail tunnel under the mountain. Photograph: Kristy Durbridge / Alamy/Alamy
A railway between China and Nepal that could include a tunnel under Mount Everest is under consideration, Chinese state media said Thursday, as Beijing builds links with a country India regards as firmly within its sphere of influence.
The Qinghai-Tibet railway already links the rest of China with the Tibetan capital Lhasa and beyond, and an extension running as far as the international border is already being planned “at Nepal’s request”, the China Daily newspaper reported, quoting an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
This is expected to be completed by 2020, it cited a Tibetan official as saying.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi visited Kathmandu in December and, according to Nepalese reports, said the line could eventually be extended to the Nepalese capital and further, potentially providing a crucial link between China and the huge markets of India.
Such a plan could see a tunnel being built under Mount Everest, the China Daily said.
“The line will probably have to go through Qomolangma so that workers may have to dig some very long tunnels,” expert Wang Mengshu told the newspaper, referring to Everest by its Tibetan name.
He said that, due to the challenging Himalayan terrain with its “remarkable” changes in elevation, trains on any line to Kathmandu would probably have a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
The proposal underscores China’s influence in the impoverished Himalayan nation, where Beijing has for years been building roads and investing billions of dollars in hydropower and telecommunications.
Chinese tourism to Nepal, which is home to eight of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000 metres, is also climbing.
Beijing’s increasing role has raised alarms in New Delhi that China, already closely allied to Pakistan, is forging closer economic ties with Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Nepal in a deliberate strategy to encircle India.
In an apparent counter-move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged late last year that South Asia’s largest economy would fund a series of regional investments and free up its markets to its neighbours’ exporters.
But India has struggled to compete with China’s financial muscle.
Chinese plans to expand the rail network in Tibet have also come under criticism from rights groups including the International Campaign for Tibet, which has warned of the project’s “dangerous implications for regional security and the fragile ecosystem of the world’s highest and largest plateau”.
“The Chinese government’s claim that rail expansion on the plateau simply benefits tourism and lifts Tibetans out of poverty does not hold up to scrutiny and cannot be taken at face value,” ICT president Matteo Mecacci said in a statement last year.
In an apparent counter-move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged late last year that South Asia’s largest economy would fund a series of regional investments and free up its markets to its neighbours’ exporters.
But India has struggled to compete with China’s financial muscle.
Look at all the Indians dissing Chinese about the railroad through Mt Qomolangma.
China's plans to build rail link with Nepal through Mt Everest could concern India
Quotes from: Griffin "another "Ghost Project"... "
East or West India Best "chinese talk too much."
Ito-"How someone can build rail link through Mt. Everest? Too much boasting of Chinese capabilities."
They confuse our capabilities with their own. A fatal mistake
To be fair, imagine you grew up in a place with a 75% literacy rate, and where people openly defecated next to railways built a century ago by light-skinned conquerors, which the country still depends on, and otherwise no infrastructure worked. Then someone told you your neighbors were building new trains through mountains. You would probably be skeptical too.
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说人话Hi, are you from guangxi province?