The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation framework could not be signed between Nepal and China. The BRI framework could not be signed after the Chinese side disagreed with Nepal's proposal to receive only grants in addition to loans.

An official who participated in the visit said that during Prime Minister Oli's visit to China, the draft was not signed this time after the Chinese side did not agree to some of the terms of the cooperation framework prepared by the Nepali side.

After bilateral talks between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, 9 points of agreement and memorandum of understanding were signed. "The agreement and memorandum of understanding has been signed only as a matter of planning". The matter of what to do in those projects will be implemented in its own way,' said an official participating in the visit, 'The implementation of these projects is said to be under BRI.' have done . "There was a discussion between two people for about 20 minutes," said the official who participated in the visit after the discussion.

Since the topic of the BRI agreement did not get a place in the meeting with C, this time the cooperation framework will not be signed during Oli's visit to China.

Nepal signed the Memorandum of Understanding of BRI in 2017. This time, China offered to sign the 'BRI Implementation Action Plan' during the visit of Nepal's Prime Minister Oli. By changing the name of the action plan sent by China and calling it BRI Cooperation Framework, Nepal sent back the proposal without taking the loan. There was a long discussion between the Chinese and the Nepalese side about the terms 'loan', 'investment', and 'grant' within the framework sent by Nepal.