{"id":25216,"date":"2025-10-10T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=25216"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:04:27","slug":"china-laos-railway-handles-over-60-million-passenger-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=25216","title":{"rendered":"China-Laos Railway handles over 60 million passenger trips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20251009\/59b08d3ce52e4de7ba331fbf5013975d\/2025100959b08d3ce52e4de7ba331fbf5013975d_XxjwshE000082_20251009_CBMFN0A001.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stewardesses interact with passengers aboard train No. D86 from Kunming, capital city of southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan Province, to the Lao capital Vientiane, July 18, 2025. (Photo by Yang Zixuan\/Xinhua)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To meet growing demand, this railway service added a second pair of international trains between Kunming, capital of southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan Province, and Vientiane in Laos this July, doubling the number of daily trains to four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Service enhancements include dedicated ticketing windows, support for foreign payment methods, and optimized cross-border booking systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passenger volume this year has reached 15.48 million to date &#8212; a 2.38 percent year-on-year increase, reflecting this railway&#8217;s important role in regional connectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The China-Laos Railway officially opened in December 2021 &#8212; and launched international services linking Kunming and Vientiane in April 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20251009\/59b08d3ce52e4de7ba331fbf5013975d\/c.html; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Yunnan Province, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[24234,2307,24233,2076,24232,4957],"class_list":["post-25216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-60-million-passengers","tag-china-3","tag-china-laos-railway-2","tag-economy-2","tag-laos-2","tag-tourism-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25217,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions\/25217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}