Published by: World Tibet Network News, Wednesday September 4 1996

LHASA (Sept. 2) XINHUA - A survey of the 1,559 km border line between northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Tibet Autonomous Region has been completed, thanks to efforts by the autonomous regional governments.

The two regional governments signed an agreement in Lhasa today. Meanwhile, programs of implementation for determining the confluence of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region and for surveying the joint Sichuan-Tibet border line was also signed here today.

The Xinjiang-Tibet border line runs through some 5,000-m-high mountains and glaciers and ends at the China-India border.

Both autonomous regional governments worked together to survey the line following the State Council's conference on border surveying early this year.

Tibet and its other border provinces, Sichuan and Yunnan, will also conduct border surveys soon.