An Myanmar-China cross-border road connecting Myanmar's Myitkyina in northernmost Kachin state and China's Teng Chong in southwestern Yunnan Province is expected to be completed and put into service in March this year, said the local weekly Yangon Times Thursday.
The 224-kilometer Myanmar-China cross-border road extends as Myitkyina-Kanpikete-Teng Chong with the prior section lying on the Myanmar side, while the latter standing as a cross-border section far up to China's Teng Chong.
With the assistance of Chinese engineers, the 96-kilometer Myitkyina-Kanpikete section in the Myanmar side had been completed and opened in April 2007.
According to the weekly, most of the work of the remaining section of Kanpikete-Teng Chong, which is a tunnel road starting from Myanmar's Kanpikete at a point of border demarcation stone No.4., has been completed, also with the Chinese assistance.
The tunnel measures 500 meters in length, 8 meters in width and9 meters in height, and the road is of two ways, the report said.
The construction of the tunnel road began in 2006 and involved in about 100 workers from a Yunnan company, worths 45 million Chinese yuan (1 U.S. dollar is equivalent to 7.24 yuan).
Source:Xinhua
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