China and Nepal will jointly launch a border inspection mapping
operation, the third time in history.
The two countries will apply the Global Positioning System (GPS)
technology to survey the border marks.
Li Qingyuan, China's chief representative of the joint mapping,
said the major mapping work will be done by Chinese workers and
then workers from Nepal will check the mapping data and results,
adding that the final mapping result will be valid only after the
chiefs of both parties sign to confirm it.
The Surveying and Mapping Bureau of
Shaanxi, from northwest China, has been appointed to take the
task and will form the main body of the China team.
The first batch of mapping workers are scheduled to arrive in
the China-Nepal border area in April and all the outdoor surveying
is planned to finish by the end of September.
The official said the final mapping outcome is expected to
unveil by the end of 2007.
China and Nepal share a 1,400-kilometre-long borderline, along
which there are 79 landmarks.
The two nations signed the boundary agreement in 1961 and
carried out border inspection mapping in 1978 and 1988
respectively.
(Xinhua News Agency March 19, 2006)