President Xi Jinping and Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari Exchange Letters to Jointly Announce New Height of Mount Qomolangma 2020/12/08 On December 8, 2020, President Xi Jinping and Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari exchanged letters to jointly announce the new height of Mount Qomolangma. Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Nepal reached consensus last year on the joint announcement of the new height of the peak. For more than a year, the two countries' surveying teams have overcome all kinds of difficulties, solidly carried out their work, and finally reached a conclusion on the snow surface height of Mount Qomolangma based on the International Height Reference System. Xi Jinping said today, he, together with President Bhandari, on behalf of China and Nepal, officially announced to the world that the new height of Mount Qomolangma is 8,848.86 meters.