On the evening of May 10th, 2019, the Chinese ambassador to Nepal Ms. Hou Yanqi, together with Mr. Yang Shichao, the Political Counselor of the Chinese Embassy ; Mr. Zhang Fan, the Business Counselor; Mr. Baokerell, the Deputy General Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Nepal；the general manager from the airport; Mr. Chen Tianzhi, the Vice President of AVIC-KDN and Mr. Wang Jianxin, the Project Manager etc. inspected the runway and taxiway reconstruction project of the TIA in Kathmandu, which is contracted by AVIC-KDN.

Ms. Hou Yanqi and her attendants listened to the introduction delivered by Mr. Han keqiang, the national manager of China National Aero-technology International Engineering Corporation; by Mr. Chen Tianzhi, the Vice President of AVIC-KDN and by Mr. Wang Jianxin, the project manager. Afterwards, they inspected the runway construction site to further understand the progress of the project and the current difficulties in detail.

Ms. Hou said that the TIA project, which involves the national economy and people's livelihood, is demanding in technical requirements as well as in construction and thus has attracted much attention from all walks of life. The contractor should further enhance the overall awareness, strengthen the internal management, optimize the construction plan, refine the organization and arrangement, take advantage of "Chinese wisdom", show "Chinese efficiency", and promote the project construction with high standards and high quality.

At the same time, Ms. Hou conveyed that she hopes that the owner of the Nepal side will further enhance support and cooperation, strengthen communication and coordination with the construction enterprises and supervision units, working together to overcome difficulties and promote the smooth implementation of the project.

As soon as the airport was closed at around 10pm, all the workers and equipment entered into the site quickly. The reporter witnessed that worker of both sides of China and Nepal were operating 4 milling machines, 12 machines of joining milling and planer machines. The workers were carrying out construction activities in an orderly manner in accordance with the process. According to the staff, the main work for night shift was to complete the repairing of the 120 meter runway.

The builders are working

The work of this project mainly includes the repair of the main runway with a length of 3050 meters, the taxiway with a length of 1950 meters, the installation of the middle-line lights of the main runway and other related ancillary works. In order to ensure the normal operation of flights, the airport runway repair project adopts the non-stop construction technology, and the construction schedule begin at 22 PM until 8AM of the next day, which will last for three months.