{"id":40605,"date":"2026-01-22T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40605"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:26:32","slug":"china-nepal-border-trade-mechanism-holds-third-meeting-in-lhasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-nepal-border-trade-mechanism-holds-third-meeting-in-lhasa\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2013Nepal Border Trade Mechanism Holds Third Meeting in Lhasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Lhasa, Jan, 22:\u00a0<\/strong> The third meeting of the China\u2013Nepal Coordination Mechanism on Border Trade and Cooperation was held in Lhasa on January 20\u201321, co-chaired by Nepali Industry, Commerce and Supplies Secretary Dr Ram Prasad Ghimire and Xizang Vice Chairman Zhao Peng.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40609\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3rd-Meeting-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting agreed to promote bilateral trade, strengthen connectivity and expand cross-border cooperation. Key discussions included the 1981 Trade and Payments Agreement, border pass simplification, continued zero-tariff access for Nepali goods, reduced trade time and costs, and improved border operations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40610\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3rd-Meeting-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"1276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both sides also discussed infrastructure and logistics projects, including border roads, customs facilities and cross-border tourism, and agreed to enhance cooperation in investment, agriculture, transport and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides decided to hold the fourth meeting in Kathmandu at a mutually agreed date.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40606\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Press-release-on-the-third-meeting-of-China-Nepal-Coordination-Mechanism-on-Border-Trade-and-Cooperation_page-0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1238\" height=\"1761\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40607\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Press-release-on-the-third-meeting-of-China-Nepal-Coordination-Mechanism-on-Border-Trade-and-Cooperation_page-0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"1765\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lhasa, Jan, 22:\u00a0 The third meeting of the China\u2013Nepal Coordination Mechanism on Border Trade and Cooperation was held in Lhasa on January 20\u201321, co-chaired by Nepali Industry, Commerce and Supplies Secretary Dr Ram Prasad Ghimire and Xizang Vice Chairman Zhao Peng. The meeting agreed to promote bilateral trade, strengthen connectivity and expand cross-border cooperation. Key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40611,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605\/revisions\/40611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}