Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday instructed officials to speed up the construction of the new railway project connecting the country's southwest Sichuan province to Linzhi in Tibet project worth USD 47.8 billion and is close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese sources say would play a key role in safeguarding stability in the border areas.
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It is the second railway line into the Tibet. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway is followed by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway project. The new project will go through the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, starts from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province and travels through Ya'an and enters Tibet via Qamdo, shortens the journey from Chengdu to Lhasa from 48 hours to 13 hours. The India-China border covers the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control, the de-facto border between the two countries. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of south Tibet which India rejects firmly.
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Linzhi, also known as Nyingchi, is located close to India's Arunachal Pradesh border. This place has an airport, one among the five airports built by China in the Himalayan region. In a video conference, Xi in his government's general plan for governing Tibet in the new era, stressed the project's important role in safeguarding national unity, promoting ethnic solidarity and consolidating stability in border areas considers the project of great value.
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