Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge

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Bhote Koshi River

- Nepal Nepal Kodari in Sindhulpalchok district

The bridge of the Sino -Nepalese Friendship (Chinese中 尼 友谊 桥, English Sino - Nepal Friendship Bridge ) is a bridge over the River Bhote Koshi. It connects the towns of Zhangmu (China) and Kodari in Sindhulpalchok District (Nepal) and is currently the only official border crossing between the two countries. The prestressed concrete bridge created as an arch bridge with overhead roadway is relatively small with about 8 meters wide and 45 meters long.

Transport links

On the Nepalese side of the road bridge to the Araniko Highway is connected, which leads to the capital, Kathmandu. On the Chinese side, the building is also the end point of the Friendship Highway. This is section of the National Road 318 and via Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, on up to Shanghai.

Economic Importance

The governments of both countries have built a zone of legal and administrative facilities for the movement and exchange of goods of the population living within 30 kilometers of the bridge. Thus, visa-free regime for this group. Moreover, for a variety of manufactured goods in Nepal, especially for agricultural and craft products, to pay any customs tax. From this it has been in the vicinity of the bridge brisk economic activity developed. Tibetan merchants sell wool, salt, tea and the popular Tibetan medicine products.

However, the trade is dominated by manufactured in other parts of China goods of all kinds arriving on trucks goods are usually in Zhangmu, where the bridge nearest pig place on the Chinese side, unloaded, made ​​it over the bridge where they were loaded onto trucks in the destination country. This additional process occurs customs regulations and other administrative reasons, moreover, it is also due to the change in the road side ( left and right). In order to improve the chaotic processes on the Nepalese side, will be built near the town of Kodari with Chinese help build new truck depot.

A part of the goods offered for sale in the town itself. Many Tibetans rent the ground floor of their house to traders from other Chinese regions. Daily cross around 500 Nepalese friendship bridge to sell their products or to purchase Chinese goods for their own use or resale in their home. In the reverse direction per day pass through some 250 Chinese the bridge.

In addition, numerous tourists crossing the bridge, including mountaineers who want to climb Mount Everest from the Chinese side. From Kathmandu incoming package tourists must usually leave the bus in Nepal and walk over the bridge to continue on there with a Chinese company.

Others

Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, the former declared during his tenure that a total of Nepal Friendship Bridge between China and India should be.