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.
BEIJING, Jan 23 (China Daily/ANN): Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, underlined the importance of exercising full and strict governance over the Party and a steadfast political direction in ensuring the implementation of goals and tasks set out in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25).
WUHAN, Jan 16 (China Daily/ANN): An international expert team from the World Health Organisation arrived in Wuhan, Hubei province, and started quarantine at a hotel in Wuhan to work with its Chinese counterparts on origin-tracing and scientific research of the novel coronavirus.
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