TEHRAN Iranian and Chinese experts on Sunday reviewed different ways to implement a subway linking the new city of Hashtgerd, in west of Tehran, to Mehrshahr, in the vicinity of Karaj.

A Chinese company is committed to make a 100-million-dollar investment on the project.

According to a report released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the visiting Chinese experts along with their Iranian counterparts visited the proposed route for construction of the subway.

Three stations will be constructed along the 25km subway between Mehrshahr and Hashtgerd.

China has committed itself to construct the subway in four years.

A 30-member Chinese expert delegation is currently here to hold talks with the Iranian officials in different areas of electricity, telecommunications, and civil engineering.

During the five-day visit in June of President Mohammad Khatami to Beijing, the Chinese agreed to finance and provide equipment for a 500 million-dollar extension of the Tehran subway.

Tehran, with a population of over 10 million, has finally secured Chinese financing for the project.

Tehran's first subway was inaugurated in February in the presence of Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan.

Last October Iran signed a contract with a Chinese company to transfer its rolling stock manufacturing technology to the country.

The 3.4-million-dollar contract which provides for the transfer of Chinese technology to manufacture locomotives, wagons and all other railway vehicles is intended to benefit the second phase of construction of the Tehran subway.

The Chinese side, according to the contract, is to provide Iran with all necessary equipment.