Ceke Port of Entry (Chinese:策克口岸;pinyin:Cèkè kǒu'àn) is aport of entry on China'sborder with Mongolia. The only international border crossing withinAlxa League ofInner Mongolia,[1] Ceke is located inEjin Banner, in theGobi Desert. The locality on the opposite,(Outer) Mongolian, side of the border is called Shivee Khuren.[2][3]
Ceke's importance is primarily due to its location on the road from China to theNariin Sukhait mining complex (Ovoot Tolgoi) in Mongolia. The Chinese part of the road is known as Inner Mongolia Provincial Highway 315 (S315).
Presently, there is only a highway border crossing at Ceke, which has been upgraded to 8 lanes in January 2013.[4][3]
There are three railway terminals at Ceke, at which coal trucked in from Outer Mongolia can be loaded on train and shipped out over theJiayuguan–Ceke Railway,Ejin–Hami Railway orLinhe–Ceke Railway.
Plans exist for extending the railway from Ceke to the Nariin Sukhait coal fields in Mongolia itself, so that transshipment at Ceke will not be necessary anymore.
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