Since the opening of the China-Laos Railway, passenger and freight transportation has maintained a strong growth trend, and has continuously handed over the report card of both passenger and freight prosperity. As of December 27, a total of 25.25 million passengers have been sent30.33 million tons of goods were transported, of which 6.2 million tons of cross-border goods were transported, and the effect of the first large channel has become increasingly prominent, becoming an important engine for promoting economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between China and Laos, a road of happiness, development and friendship for the benefit of the people of China and Laos, and a major artery connecting China and the countries of the Indochina Peninsula.
The railway departments of China and Laos have dynamically adjusted the train operation plan and implemented the "one map per day" to continuously meet the daily travel needs of the people of China and Laos, especially on April 13 this year, the international passenger train of the China-Laos Railway was opened, and the train between Kunming and Vientiane can be reached on the same day, and passengers have come in droves, making it more convenient for the people of the two countries to travel between the two countries. At the same time, we actively contact with the customs and border inspection departments, increase the investment in personnel and equipment according to the experience of customs clearance services in the early stage, the needs of passengers entering and exiting the country, etc., improve and optimize the customs clearance process, and the time for passenger entry and exit customs clearance will be about 15 hours is shortened to about 1 hour each, and the efficient and convenient large channel promotes the efficient circulation of passengers, logistics and information flow. It is reported that since the opening of the international passenger train of the China-Laos Railway in both directions, it has transported a total of 75 countries (regions) cross-border passengers1120,000 people.
At present, the China-Laos Railway cargo transportation covers 12 "Belt and Road" countries such as Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar, and the categories of goods have expanded from more than 10 kinds of fertilizers and department stores in the early stage of opening to more than 2,700 kinds of electronics, photovoltaics and cold-chain fruits31 provinces and municipalities in China have successively opened cross-border freight trains on the China-Laos Railway. With the continuous increase in freight volume, the innovative opening of international freight trains and trains such as the "Lancang-Mekong Express", "China-Laos Railway + China-Europe Express" of the China-Laos Railway, the "Shanghai-Yunnan-Lancang-Mekong Line" of the China-Laos Railway, and the international cold chain freight train of the China-Laos Railway have become increasingly apparent, which has greatly promoted the efficient exchange of passengers, logistics and information flows along the line, and injected new vitality into the prosperity and development of the region.