China is ready to work with Laos to open up a new stage and write a new chapter for the relations between the two parties and the two countries in the new era, said General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Dec 22.
The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has ordered its relevant departments to do more to promote cattle farming, encouraging private operators to produce more cattle for export to China.
With the China-Laos Railway set to complete its construction by the end of this year, durian growers in Thailand are looking forward to upgraded access to the lucrative Chinese market where Chinese consumers' appetite for Thai durian continues to rise.
The anticipated full opening by the end of this year of the China-Laos railway－an important part of the trans-Asian railway network－will significantly stimulate both trade volume and people-to-people exchanges between China and Southeast Asia in the coming years, said its investors and operators on Wednesday.
A train loaded with 1,000 tons of glutinous rice, from Nong Khai Province in northeastern Thailand, is heading to Southwest China's Chongqing through the China-Laos Railway after it departed from Vientiane South Station on Wednesday.
