A look at the China-built railway in Hanoi

A citizen walks at a station of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

Trains run on the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

Citizens prepare to take a train of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

Trains run on the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

Citizens prepare to take a train of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

Citizens take a train of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

Citizens enter a station of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 9, 2024. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban elevated railway was built by the China Railway Sixth Group as an important project of the synergy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Vietnam’s “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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