Construction of pipelines that will transport oil and gas to China via Myanmar will begin this September, according its builder PetroChina.

Analysts said that the project would open the fourth route for China's oil and natural gas imports, after ocean shipping, the Sino-Kazakhstan crude oil and natural gas pipelines, and the Sino-Russian oil pipeline.

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 Yunnan province.