The projected cost of the railway, which will connect China and Pakistan, is 400 billion yuan ($57.7 billion), according to a study by China’s state-owned China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group. Thus, the China-Pakistan rail corridor could become the most costly project under the Belt and Road Initiative. Railway Supply magazine writes about this with reference to zdmira.

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The railway should connect the Pakistani port of Gwadar on the coast of the Arabian Sea with the city of Kashgar, located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in southwestern China, not far from the border with Kyrgyzstan.

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The length of the railway will be approximately 3,000 km, it will allow China to gain access to the Arabian Sea, and in the future, also access to the railway networks of countries such as Iran and Turkey, which will allow organizing rail transportation of Chinese goods to Europe along the southern route.

On the railways of Pakistan, the 1676 mm gauge is mainly used, but the country’s authorities are considering the possibility of building a 1435 mm gauge Quetta-Taftan line with access to the border with Iran.

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