Preliminary talks have been held about a direct road link to China across the remote 76-kilometer (47-mile) border between the two countries, according to Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry.
Two north-south highways are under construction to link China and Thailand, one via Laos and the other via Myanmar.
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He now has two diagnostic chips, for infectious disease and tissue transplantation, in trials at Beijing hospitals, and is spearheading a drive to link most of China's biochip expertise under one roof in a Beijing science park next year.
My fans are more interested in a photo of me posing with a light saber on Star Wars Day than a fresh link to a developing story out of China.
The superhighway may turn out to be a key link in one of China's fastest-growing economic corridors.
The theories in recent times which tried to link small changes in incremental growth in China with the likely future of the Australian economy are not supported by data and information that we have.
China has thus far resisted international pressure to break the link or at least to shift the level of its peg.
Then, there is a real possibility that the trans-Kazak line will link up with a Russian pipeline and so also could carry Siberian oil to China.
But as Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, points out, that link seems to have gone, perhaps because of excess capacity at home, or because China's increasing presence in world trade pushes the prices of manufactured goods and labour down.
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Then, in a few weeks' time, China will launch another unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou 8, and try to link the pair together.
On March 28th, China Eastern Airlines was due to fly into Delhi from Beijing, inaugurating the first ever direct air link between the world's two largest countries.
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