![]() In early February, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith to discuss the US$6 billion project, a part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its plan to eventually develop rail lines stretching all the way to Singapore.Ĭhinese state-run media say construction teams and engineers in Laos will likely finish laying track in May, leaving only signaling systems and other infrastructure outstanding. Laos appears to be on schedule to open the country’s first national railway by the end of 2021, as the controversial China-Laos railway, linking Vientiane to Kunming in China’s Yunnan province, nears completion. Offering an alternative to Laos’ reliance on hydropower dams for economic development, it could also become increasingly significant for China. The China-Laos railway, slated for completion by December, may bring the most dramatic shifts of any current infrastructure project in Southeast Asia as it transforms communities along its route and changes the dynamics of Laos’ economy.
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