'Friendship road' fuels business
By Cui Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2014-09-25 08:15
Pakistani businessman Saifullah Baig has been trading via the Karakoram Highway for more than two decades.
He knows that the condition of the highway - the world's highest paved international thoroughfare that connects China and Pakistan - is crucial to business and people's lives.
The 1,224 km-long highway starts from Kashgar city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and ends at the northern Pakistani city of Thakot, crossing the Karakoram mountain range through the Khunjerab Pass in the Tashkurgan Tajik autonomous county. It is also known as the China-Pakistan friendship road.
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