KUNMING (Xinhua): International train service on a segment of the China-Laos Railway has been further extended by including additional train stations, thereby providing more travelling solutions to foreign passengers, reported China Railway Kunming Group Co., Ltd. on Sunday.
Apart from the train service linking the terminal stations of Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, and Laotian capital Vientiane, there is also a shuttle train service section on the China-Laos Railway linking Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna with Laos’ Luang Prabang.
From Sunday, the shuttle section this will include an extra 94-km extension route to Pu’er in Yunnan province, which is famous for its production of tea and coffee. The extension service also makes a stop at Nateuy of Laos.
The China-Laos Railway’s Xishuangbanna-Luang Prabang international passenger train service, as of Sunday, had transported a total of 220,000 passengers, including 81,000 cross-border passengers, since the operation last year. – Xinhua
