The construction of pipelines that will transport oil and gas to China via Myanmar will begin in full swing in September, Xinhua news agency reported.

The project will open the fourth route for China's oil and nature gas imports, after ocean shipping, the Sino-Kazakhstan crude oil and natural gas pipelines, and the Sino-Russian oil pipeline, an official from PetroChina who declined to be named was quoted by Xinhua as saying on June 16.

According to an agreement signed in March 2009 between the Chinese and Myanmar governments, the oil and natural gas pipelines will run in parallel. Both will start in Kyaukryu port on the west coast of Myanmar and enter China at the border city of Ruili in China's Yunnan province.

China has imported more than 10 million tonnes of crude oil through the Sino-Kazakhstan oil pipeline, which was put into service in 2006, according to Xinhua./.