The Vientiane-Vangvieng section of the China-Laos expressway, the first highway in Laos jointly constructed by the Lao government and China's Yunnan Construction and Investment Holding Group (YCIH), was inaugurated on Sunday.
The opening ceremony was held simultaneously in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and Kunming of southwest China's Yunnan Province, via video conferencing.
Bounnhang Vorachith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos, and Sonexay Siphandone, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Investment, in Vientiane, joined Ruan Chengfa, secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Yunnan Provincial Committee and the province's Acting Governor Wang Yubo, in Kunming, together with representatives from China and Laos, to attend the ceremony.