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China-Laos railway project to be completed in December 2021: Boten Tunnel drilling thrilled the Laos people and officials!
Laos is on the road for modernization and growth. China-Laos railway is coming and the formal inauguration took place recently. The people and officials of Laos are thrilled after witnessing the drilling-through ceremony for the first major tunnel for the railway line.
Laos officials and people are thrilled
It was a day of excitement for the officials and people of Laos. Their China-Laos railway project that was until not on paper has been launched officially. Work on it has started and soon their dream is going to come through. There was a drilling-through ceremony for the first major tunnel that would connect China and Laos and contain the railway line in it.
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| The drilling-through ceremony of China-Laos rail project [Source: G Times] |
The excited Laos officials spoke highly after having witnessed the project and drilling. It is a major milestone for them. It also marks a historical moment for them. Khamsouk Bounyavong, Vice President of Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee’s Inspection Committee was present at this ceremony held in Boten. He said:
"The drilling-in ceremony has created a miracle in the history of Lao construction."
The advantages of the China-Laos Railway
The connection of China with Laos via a rail line would make a lot of things easier and simpler for the people of Laos. Their country will embark on the road of development. It can speed up this process since the railways will link it also to other ASEAN countries. It will be a major arterial line for the people of Laos since it will run from its North to its South. It would also greatly aid the modernization of the small country. 
China-Laos Railway project to be completed in December 2021 [Source: Xinhuanet]
Lao Minister of Industry and Commerce and Chairperson of the Laos-China Joint Committee on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation Khemmani Pholsena had done a field inspection of the project. She expressed that the people of Laos will not have easy access to the world. Also, she gave her best wishes for the project and wished that it gets completed early.
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More on the rail project
China Railway No. 5 Engineering Group (CREC-5) is handling this vast project. It drilled the tunnel in Boten and this would be 6453.5 meters long. This is one of the 10 tunnels along the China-Laos rail line that would be longer than 5 km each.
The drill-through work is difficult since the geography of the area includes karst, bedrock, fault fracture zones, gypsum, carbon mudstone, and water inrush. But the company is expert in this work and is ready to face any challenges that might come its way during the making of this railway line. 
The China-Laos railway line [Source: Travel China Guide]
Laos has a strategy of converting from a landlocked country to a land-linked nation. And China is helping it in it. This railway would be 414 km long and would run from the Mohan-Boten border gate in northern Laos to the capital of Vientiane. This would cut down the journey time from the current 13 to 4 hours. The work had started on this project in December 2016 and the firm believes that it will be able to throw open the project to its people in December 2021.
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