The China-Laos Railway links Kunming in the north and Vientiane in the south. Its construction commenced on December 25, 2016, and was completed and opened to traffic on December 3, 2021. The 1,035-kilometer-long railway is a flagship project of pragmatic cooperation between China and Laos, as well as an important docking project between the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub.
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