CRI听力:Tibet Reopens Highway Route to Nepal

A vital transportation artery linking southern Tibet with neighboring Nepal has reopened.

The road linking Nyalam County and the border town of Zham in southwest China's Tibet region has been reopened after being shut down earlier this week.

Local road management official Zhao Chun says Tuesday's major aftershock in the area caused significant landslides.

"The 7.5 magnitude quake caused more than 30 landslide sites and around 100,000 cubic meters of obstruction on the road in Zham. Huge rocks made it hard for us to carry out our work."

Liu Guorong, deputy commander of China's Armed Police Force in Tibet, says crews had a tough time clearing the rocks away from the road.

"There were more than 10 rocks weighing over 100 tons on the Zham section, and we had to use hammers and even dynamite to break them."

The death toll from the major aftershock, which hit just 10-kilometers from the Chinese border in Nepal, has reached close to 100.

Tuesday's secondary quake has set back relief efforts in Nepal, which is still scrambling to try set up more temporary accommodations following last month's major earthquake, which has left well over 8-thousand people dead.

The impending monsoon season in Nepal is another growing concern.