First passenger train runs between Kunming and Vientiane

25.10.2021

On the 16th of October, the first Laos-China Railway passenger train departed from Kunming, headed for Vientiane. The construction of this new line, a major Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project, took five years to complete. Several tests will be conducted on this new line before its inauguration on the 2nd of December, Laos’s...