China to build strategic highway in Myanmar: Xinhua.YANGON, Dec. 9 Kyodo China will rebuild a strategic road inside Myanmar that would connect China's landlocked southwestern Yunnan Province Noun 1. Yunnan province - a province of southern China Yunnan Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world with Myanmar's northern port of Bhamo to further boost ''exchanges'' between China and Southeast Asia, Xinhua News Agency “Xinhua” redirects here. For other uses, see Xinhua (disambiguation). The Xinhua News Agency (Simplified Chinese: 新华社; Traditional Chinese: reported Wednesday. Chinese and Myanmar officials recently signed a 28 million yuan ($3.38 million) agreement to renovate the 79-kilometer highway, the official Chinese news agency said. The highway extends south into Myanmar from the Chinese border town of Zhangfeng in Yunnan Province to Bhamo in Myanmar's northern Kachin State Kachin State (kəchĭn`), state (1983 pop. 903,982), 33,903 sq mi (87,809 sq km), extreme N Myanmar. It is a mountainous region bounded on the NW by India and on the N and E by China and traversed by tributaries of the Ayeyarwady River. . The current Zhangfeng-Bhamo highway is not an ''all-weather road'' and unavailable in the rainy season. Because of its proximity to Bhamo, Zhangfeng has become an important trading center for China with South and Southeast Asia, Xinhua said. According to a recent Myanmar official report, the agreement to construct the highway was signed in Yangon on Nov. 4, between China's Zhangfeng-Momauk Road construction company and Myanmar's Construction Ministry. The highway is expected to open for traffic again at the end of 2006. |
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