China-Laos Railway opens, putting Laos on track from landlocked to land-linked

-- The China-Laos Railway, a landmark project of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, started operation on Friday.

-- As a docking project between the Belt and Road Initiative and Laos strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked one, the line will slash the travel time between Chinas Kunming to Lao capital Vientiane to about 10 hours.

-- The railway could potentially increase aggregate income in Laos by up to 21 percent over the long term, the World Bank said in a report last year.

The China-Laos Railway, a landmark project of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, started operation on Friday.

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