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In India, ClubFactory E-Commerce India Pvt Ltd owes its growth in the market to its consumers. [9] The Times of India described the Indian consumers as "discount hunters" [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2018, the electronic commerce platform raised $100 million in a series C or venture round of funding from existing investors like IDG Capital , Kunlun Capital ...
In the opposite direction, around 250 Chinese cross the bridge every day. Nepalese women carry the suitcases of package tourists entering China across the Sino-Nepalese Friendship Bridge. In addition, numerous tourists cross the bridge, including mountaineers who want to climb Mount Everest from the Chinese side.
The India–Nepal border is an open international boundary running between the republics of India and Nepal. The 1,751 km (1,088.02 mi) long border includes the Himalayan territories as well as Indo-Gangetic Plain of the subcontinent. [1] The current border was delimited after the Sugauli treaty of 1816 between Nepal and the British Raj.
The China–Nepal border is the international boundary between the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. It is 1,389 kilometres (863 mi) in length and runs in a northwest–southeast direction along the Himalayan mountain range, including Mount Everest , the world's highest mountain ...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has ambitions to reshape the global economy by connecting more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa through trade and infrastructure projects.
India shares land borders with six sovereign nations. The state's Ministry of Home Affairs also recognizes a 106 kilometres (66 mi) land border with a seventh nation, Afghanistan, as part of its claim on the Kashmir region; however, this is disputed and the region bordering Afghanistan has been administered by Pakistan as part of Gilgit-Baltistan since 1947 (see Durand Line).
India has two non-overlapping distinct schemes, the Vibrant Village Program (VVP) specifically for the Indian villages on border with China and the Border Area Development Programme (BADP) for Indian villages on border with all the neighboring countries including China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, etc. [30]
China started building a railway in 2008 connecting Lhasa with Zhangmu on the Nepal-China border. It is an extension of the 1,956 kilometres (1,215 mi) Qinghai-Tibet Railway. [2] [3] [4] In 2012, China signed agreement with Nepal to make this one of six ports of entries between Nepal and China. [5]