BEIJING – China on Wednesday rejected a report that it had begun to build amilitary training camp in the Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan.

“It is understood that the relevant reports are not true,” Chinese foreignministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying said while responding to a question inthat regard during her regular briefing here.

The corridor was a narrow strip of inhospitable and barely accessible landextending about 350km (220 miles) from the northern Afghan province ofBadakhshan to China’s region of Xinjiang.