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(KPL) The construction of the Laos-China Railway stretching 409 km from Luang Namtha’s Boten district to Thanaleng in Vientiane is now almost 94 per cent completed.
Updates on the multi-billion-US-dollar project were reported at the 10th Plenary meeting of the Laos-China Railway Project Steering Committee in Vientiane on Aug 11 by the Head of the Laos-China Railway Project Management Committee Vantoula Phanalasy.
Photo courtesy: CRI FM93
(KPL) The construction of the Laos-China Railway stretching 409 km from Luang Namtha’s Boten district to Thanaleng in Vientiane is now almost 94 per cent completed.
Updates on the multi-billion-US-dollar project were reported at the 10th Plenary meeting of the Laos-China Railway Project Steering Committee in Vientiane on Aug 11 by the Head of the Laos-China Railway Project Management Committee Vantoula Phanalasy.
“The Laos-China Railway Project is a large-scale project and is part of the “Belt and Road” Initiative that the two Parties and governments of Laos and China have committed to make as a model cooperation project between Laos and China, a transparent project, and a project designed to improve the living standards of the Lao people and they have announced to the world community that this project will be fully completed and put into service on the 2nd December 2021,” said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Investment Sonexay Siphandone.
Contractors have installed 66,944 bridge girders, accounting for 96.50 % of planned activities, completed all track laying activities (100%) between Luang Namtha’s Boten and Vientiane and installed 1,362.60 km of fiber optic cables representing 96% of planned activities.
Photo courtesy: CRI FM93
They also have completed 79.2% of station construction activities. A total of 11 stations are being built along the railway, according to Director of Laos-China Railway Project Management Committee Vantoula Phanalasy.
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