China-Laos Railway handles over 60 million passenger trips
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The China-Laos Railway has seen more than 60 million passenger trips since its launch, carrying 595,000 cross-border travelers from 115 countries and regions as of Wednesday, China Railway Kunming Group has said.
To meet growing demand, this railway service added a second pair of international trains between Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, and Vientiane in Laos this July, doubling the number of daily trains to four.
Service enhancements include dedicated ticketing windows, support for foreign payment methods, and optimized cross-border booking systems.
Passenger volume this year has reached 15.48 million to date — a 2.38 percent year-on-year increase, reflecting this railway’s important role in regional connectivity.
The China-Laos Railway officially opened in December 2021 — and launched international services linking Kunming and Vientiane in April 2023.
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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.…
