Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday announced that the country would provide a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal to prevent the further spread of coronavirus. Jinping announced the assistance during a telephone conversation with Nepal's President Bidya Devi Bhandari held earlier on Wednesday.
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President Xi Jinping and Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari Exchange Letters to Jointly Announce New Height of Mount Qomolangma
On December 8, 2020, President Xi Jinping and Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari exchanged letters to jointly announce the new height of Mount Qomolangma.
Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Nepal reached consensus last year on the joint announcement of the new height of the peak. For more than a year, the two countries surveying teams have overcome all kinds of difficulties, solidly carried out their work, and finally reached a conclusion on the snow surface height of Mount Qomolangma based on the International Height Reference System. Xi Jinping said today, he, together with President Bhandari, on behalf of China and Nepal, officially announced to the world that the new height of Mount Qomolangma is 8,848.86 meters.
Mount Everest is now taller by 0.86 centimetre
By Nihad Amani| Updated: 10th December 2020 11:18 am IST Source: Google
New Delhi: The world”s highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt. Everest at 8,848.86 metres, over six decades after India conducted the previous measurement in 1954.
The revised height of Mt. Everest puts an end to the decades-long dispute between the two neighbours on the height of the world”s tallest mountain that straddles their shared border.
The exact height of Mount Everest had been contested ever since a group of British surveyors in India declared the height of Peak XV, as it was initially called, to be 8,778 metres in 1847.