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China to boost rail links to Xinjiang and Tibet, with eye on supply chains and energy security
Senior rail planner says Beijing aims to fill in the ‘blanks’ in railway networks to implement ‘major national strategies’ and improve connectivity between far western regions and the rest of China.
Senior Chinese rail planner says the country aims to fill in the ‘blanks’ in railway networks to implement ‘major national strategies’ Beijing has ‘big plans’ for the western regions, which serve as gateway for European trade and are crucial for border security, researcher says There are still many places in the western regions left undeveloped, and the major strategic channels for entering and exiting Tibet and Xinjiang need to be strengthened,” said Liu Wenxian, a senior official with China Railway Group’s planning department. “Xinjiang is the gateway for the strategic China-Europe freight trains, while the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is extremely important to China’s western border security,” said the researcher, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the topic.
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