Passengers have taken 16 million trips on the China-Laos Railway since the line opened in December 2021, including more than 20,000 cross-border trips since such service began in mid-April, the China State Railway Group said.
The world’s first experimental ultra-high-speed maglev train with a maximum speed of over 1,000 kilometers per hour (km/h) will be built in Harbin, capital of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, along with associated facilities.
Closer cooperation between China and Malaysia could help boost the revival of Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail project, Chinese experts said on Tuesday, after a senior Malaysian official said there could be further discussion with China on the project.
In its first year, the operating section of the Belgrade-Budapest Railway, a high-speed railroad between the capitals of Serbia and Hungary, transported 2.93 million passengers as of Sunday.
As cargo trade between China and Vietnam has witnessed a rapid growth in recent years, the decision by the two neighboring countries to speed up railway connectivity is set to bring a tremendous lift to cross border as well as transit goods trade between the duo and countries beyond, said Chinese railway experts and industry insiders.