China-Myanmar New Passage

  • September 1, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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China-Myanmar New Passage

Subject – IR

Context – China opens first road-­rail transport link to Indian Ocean.

Concept –

  • The first shipments on a newly-launched railway line from the Myanmar border to the key commercial hub of Chengdu in western China, that provides China a new road-rail transportation channel to the Indian Ocean, were delivered last week.
  • The transport corridor involves a sea-road-rail link.
  • The new railway line that runs from the border town of Lincang to Chengdu (western China’s biggest commercial hub in Sichuan Province), a key trade hub in western China, completes the corridor.
  • This passage connects the logistics lines of Singapore, Myanmar and China, and is currently the most convenient land and sea channel linking the Indian Ocean with southwest China.
  • The route is “the first to link western China with the Indian Ocean”.
China-Myanmar New Passage IR