Under-construction China-Laos railway cultivates friendship between two countries

Students from the China-Laos Friendship Nongping Primary School receive gifts from the China Railway No.2 Engineering Group (CREC-2)'s China-Laos railway beam fabrication yard in Lao capital of Vientiane on June 1, 2019. The construction of the China-Laos railway is a major project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Laos' strategy to transform from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub. (Xinhua/Zhang Jianhua)