The China-Laos Railway was inaugurated on Friday, with President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president, watching the opening ceremony via video link, and congratulating each other on the success of the project.
As a major Sino-Lao cooperation project, the China-Laos Railway is an important part of the pan-Asian railway network and will not only benefit the two peoples, but also significantly improve regional connectivity.
Located in the northern part of the Indochina peninsula, Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia and mainly depends on road, water and air transport for the movement of people and goods. Till the opening of the new railway line on Friday, Laos only had a 3.5-kilometer narrow gauge railway linking the capital…