Gyirong-Rasuwa Port reopens for trade

Six cargo trucks loading Nepali products were inspected during the import-bound products inspection court in the Gyirong-Rasuwa Port, in the Tibet autonomous region, on Wednesday, marking the official resumption of two-way trade at the port, Tibet Daily reported.

Located in the Himalayas, the port is 800 kilometers from the regional capital, Lhasa, and about 130 km from the Nepali capital, Kathmandu.

As one of the biggest and most completed land ports between China and Nepal, the port undertakes more than 60 percent of trade between the two countries.

In 2014, the port went into full operation. Proposals to expand the opening-up of the port were given national approval in 2017, permitting the opening of the port to third-destination countries, in August of that year.

The trade of port has been suspended for a period due to the COVID-19 pandemic between 2019 and 2020, and it resumed the operation of one-way freight services to Nepal, in July 2020, by performing cautious and strict measures to prevent the risks of the pandemic.

Under modified and adjusted prevention and control measures, the port resumed two-way trade recently after mutual efforts were made by the two countries.