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Route linking Lanzhou, Kathmandu begins operation

Xinhua, May 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

A direct route between Lanzhou in northwest China and Kathmandu in Nepal opened on Wednesday.

The train-bus channel is divided into three sections, with trains running the first 2,431-km-long section between Lanzhou and Xigaze in Tibet, and buses running the rest of the journey. A single journey takes 10 days, according to Lanzhou's deputy mayor Niu Xiangdong.

The route slashes current transportation time by land and sea by 35 days, according to Zhong Chengxiang, vice general manager of CRCT, a company that provides train containers for the route.

"It will decrease companies's costs by a great deal," Zhong said.

Gao Jinyang, deputy head of Lanzhou's railway administration, said the route will not only be a logistics channel between Lanzhou and South Asia, but will also attract companies to China. Endi