China-Laos Railway
Starting from the Mohan-Boten crossing at the China-Laos border, the 414-kilometer-long China-Laos railway will run south to Vientiane, the capital of Laos. It is scheduled to open in December 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.
The construction officially got underway in December 2016, and 62.7 percent of the railway will consist of bridges and tunnels. TheLaos-China Railway Co. Ltd. is responsible for the construction and operation of the line.
This 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 high-speed rail link in Indonesia – to be built with Chinese standards, management, technology and equipment. It will also be an important section of the pan-Asia railway network.
Once in service, the railway will significantly boost the economic and social development of Laos, facilitate local transportation and improve its efficiency, and expand cooperation between China and Laos in areas such as trade, investment and tourism. It will contribute to the development of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, and inject new life into the economy in China's southwest region.
中老鐵路
中老鐵路起于老中邊境口岸磨丁，向南到達老撾首都萬象，正線建筑長度414.332公里，其中62.7% 以上路段為橋梁和隧道，設計時速160公里，全線采用中國管理標準和技術標準建設，總投資近400億人民幣，建設工期5年，2016年12月全線開工，2017年年中進入全面施工狀態，計劃在2021年12月建成通車。由中老兩國合資的老中鐵路有限公司負責全線建設和運營管理，由中老雙方按70%和30%的股比合資建設。中老鐵路不僅是第一個以中方為主投資建設、共同運營并與中國鐵路網直接聯通的境外鐵路項目，也是繼印尼雅萬高鐵項目之后第二個全面采用中國標準、中國技術和裝備的國際鐵路建設項目。該條線路同時也將成為泛亞鐵路網的重要組成部分。中老鐵路項目建成后，一方面將極大地帶動老撾經濟社會發展，提高當地運輸效率和水平， 擴大和提升中老兩國在經濟、貿易、投資、旅游等領域的合作，進一步增強中國—東盟自貿區的經濟聯系；另一方面也將為中國西南地區經濟發展注入新的動力。
