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”.