Third land link to Europe envisioned

KUNMING: China should promote the construction of a third transcontinental transportation link with Europe, said Qin Guangrong, governor of Yunnan province.

The land corridor, consisting of railways and highways, would boost trade and provide an alternative transport channel to safeguard China's energy and economic safety, he said in an interview with China Daily yesterday.

Under the proposal, the third Eurasian land bridge would start from port cities in the Pearl River Delta, including Shenzhen, travel west to Yunnan province, then through Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, cross Europe and end at Rotterdam in the Netherlands.