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Detailed explanation-1: -China has also built a 250-km-long highway linking Nyingchi with Lhasa, which, like the Lhasa-Nyingchi rail line, runs close to Arunachal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lhasa-Nyingchi railway is the first fully-electrified railway in Tibet region. The rolling stock is the China Railway CR200J Fuxing series powered by both electronic motors and internal combustion engines, marking the complete coverage of Fuxing series to all provincial-level regions in China.

Detailed explanation-3: -India’s position on Tibet Autonomous Region After Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visit to China in June 2003, a joint declaration was signed in which India recognised that “the Tibet Autonomous Region is part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China".

Detailed explanation-4: -Tibet, the remote and mainly-Buddhist territory known as the “roof of the world", is governed as an autonomous region of China.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tibet is located on the northern side of the Himalayas, north of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar (Burma) on the barren tableland of the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s highest region with an average altitude of more than 4, 000 m above sea level.