Kathmandu. China has refuted the media reports alleging several hundred hectares of land in Nepali territory having been encroached by China. In a press conference organized in Beijing on Tuesday, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin told that all such claims made by the media are untrue.

The news that China annexed more than 150 hectares of Nepali land don’t hold truth as per spokesperson Wang. He went as far as to say that those “are fake news without any factual basis, and are complete rumors,” the Chinese government media Global Times states.

Few weeks back, assistant Chief District Officer (CDO) of Humla had informed about some construction works having been carried within the Nepali territory by China. Both China and Nepal governments had denied the report and told that there were no such border disputes between China and Nepal.

A report prepared by a team under Nepali Congress Representative at the Karnali Provincial Assembly Jivan Bahadur Shahi, who had made a field visit of the Limi area, where the encroachment was supposed to have taken place, however claimed that China had trespassed Nepali border, build structures in Nepali land and erected pillar no.12 unilaterally.

Based on the report, the Telegraph on Monday said that the “Chinese military had crossed the China-Nepal border into the Limi Valley …allegedly constructing military bases.”

Spokesperson Wang reiterated that China has not entered into Nepali territory and urged the reporters to verify source before reporting. “I can tell you again that such reports are complete rumors,” he said. They do not have factual basis, he added.