New cargo channel connects with Nepal

"Thirty rail cars will be loaded with more than 1,000 tons of cargo valued at approximately 1.8 million yuan ($282,000) on every six-day-long single trip," Yao said.

Qinghai province is a strategic gateway connecting Europe and Asia and a key bridge linking China's southwestern and northwestern regions, she said. "Qinghai province has the advantage of location, resources, industry, labor, commerce and trade in this wave of development of the Belt and Road Initiative."