Afghanistan–China border

It is believed that the famous Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang traveled this pass on his return trip back to China around 649 AD.

[7] In the 2000s, Afghanistan asked China on several occasions to open the border in the Wakhan Corridor for economic reasons or as an alternative supply route for fighting the Taliban insurgency.

However, China resisted, largely due to unrest in its far western province of Xinjiang, which borders the corridor.

[10] There have been proposals and plans by Kashgar regional government to open Tegermansu Pass as a port of entry for economic purposes since the 1990s.

Article 1 of the Boundary Treaty of 1963 describes the Afghanistan–China border, starting from the southern end: starting from a peak with a height of 5,630 meters--the reference coordinates of which are approximately 37 degrees 03 minutes north, 74 degrees 36 minutes east in the southern extremity, the boundary line between the two countries runs along the Mustagh Range watershed between the Karachukur Su River, a tributary of the Tashkurghan River[which?