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.