Editor's Note: The China-Laos Railway, due to open this week, is a docking project between the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub. It will bring new opportunities and provide huge momentum in strengthening Laos' economy. The train route will connect the Chinese city of Kunming to the Lao capital Vientiane, with grand plans for high-speed rail to ultimately snake down through Thailand and Malaysia to Singapore.
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VIENTIANE, Jan 24 (China Daily/ANN): With a track-laying machine slowly entering the railway station in the Lao city of Luang Prabang, 2020 closed out with yet another major step forward in a project that will connect the country with China by high-speed rail services.
The progress at the Luang Prabang work site－in the face of technical difficulties and the challenges caused by the coronavirus－has fueled optimism that the entire rail line can be connected this year under a year-end goal for a start to services. I was very excited and had a full sense of achievement when hearing of the completion of the track laying, said Xu Zhou, a project manager at the China Railway No 2 Engineering Group, or CREC-2.