Pictures: China - Laos rail marks success of Belt and Road, friendship and prosperity [View all]

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https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/3/183977/Pictures:-China-–-Laos-rail-marks-success-of-Belt-and-Road,%C2%A0friendship%C2%A0and-prosperity-for-the-two-countries%C2%A0

Xi said the China-Laos Railway is a landmark project of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. In recent years, with the goals of high standard, sustainability and improvement of people's livelihood, China has continuously improved the level of Belt and Road cooperation, achieved mutual benefits and win-win results for participating countries, and opened up new space for the development of the world economy.

As a docking project between the Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub, it will slash the travel time between the two cities to about 10 hours.

Sleek bullet trains will travel at a speed of 160 km per hour, through mountains and valleys.

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Faster than any train in Western Hemisphere…in Laos.