China is planning to build a “passageway” connecting Tibet to South Asia, according to a draft outline of the 14th Five-year plan (FYP) unveiled on Friday. A brief report published by Xinhua says the central government will support the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to build the passageway.
The 14th FYP is part of China’s long-range objectives that it envisages until 2035. “China’s Tibet Autonomous Region will be supported to build an important passageway opening to South Asia, according to the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for national economic and social development and the long-range objectives through the year 2035, which was unveiled on Friday,” the news agency reported on Friday.
The report was published as the annual session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), began in Beijing on Friday.Details of where exactly the “passageway” would be built and which South Asian country it would be connected to were not shared. (HT)
