"The Chinese government actually attaches great importance to revitalize this route, especially since we are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the World War II victory and this route had made a lot of contribution," he said. Mr Sun said India's Petroleum Minister Mani SShankar Aiyar had informed him that, during the war, to supply fuel to the Chinese a petroleum pipeline also ran along this route, and that this could also be revived and rebuilt. "If we can lay a pipeline in those difficult war years, now it will be very easy to do it again. So we are all studying the possibility," Mr Sun is reported to have said. The ambassador said that besides Beijing, the governments of India and Myanmar were also keen to revive the Stilwell Road, called Tea Horse Road in Yunnan, to reach the bilateral trade target of $20 billion between India and China. "Now, we are promoting the business people to think of the possibility and the feasibility. It should be there." The road, stretching 1,800km via Myanmar, was named after General J.W. Stilwell and was built during World War II to help the allied armies enter China from India to resist the advance of Japanese forces. The Chinese side of the road is now an expressway of over 1,000km, while in India the 700-km road stretches from Ledo town in Assam to Phangsu Pass in Arunachal Pradesh. Traversing Myanmar, the road connects Ledo with Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province.