中老铁路

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2010年4月，中国与老挝两国间首次就合资建设、共同经营中老铁路达成共识；2012年10月，老挝国会批准了中老铁路项目；2015年12月，中老铁路老挝段举行了奠基仪式；2016年12月25日，中老铁路全线开工仪式在老挝北部琅勃拉邦举行。中老铁路不仅是第一个以中方为主投资建设、共同运营并与中国铁路网直接联通的境外铁路项目，也是继印尼雅万高铁项目之后第二个全面采用中国标准、中国技术和装备的国际铁路建设项目，该条线路同时也将成为泛亚铁路网的重要组成部分。中老铁路北起两国边境磨憨——磨丁口岸，南至万象，全长400多公里，其中62.7%以上路段为桥梁和隧道，设计时速160公里，预计2021年建成通车，总投资近400亿人民币，由中老双方按70%和30%的股比合资建设。

China-Laos railway

Hi! Welcome to“About China”. In today’s program, we will talk about "China-Laos railway".

In April 2010, an agreement was reached between China and Laos on the first China-Laos railway to be financed, built and operated jointly by both countries; it was approved by the Lao parliament in October 2012. A ground-breaking ceremony was held in December 2015 for the Lao section of the line. The construction of China-Laos railway officially got underway on December 25, 2016, following a ceremony held in the northern Lao city of Luang Prabang.

This planned line is China’s first overseas railway project to provide a direct link to China’s internal rail network, and the second such project – after the Jakarta-Bandung rail link in Indonesia – to be built with Chinese technology and equipment to meet Chinese standards. It will also be an important section of the pan-Asia railway network.

Starting from the Mohan-Boten crossing at the China-Laos border, the 400-kilometer-long line will run south to Vientiane, the capital of Laos. 63 percent of the railway will consist of bridges and tunnels. It is scheduled to open in 2021, with a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour. The investment in the project will be about 40 billion Chinese yuan (US$5.76 billion), 70 percent of which comes from China and the remainder from Laos.

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