BANGKOK (XINHUA) – Thailand plans to speed up the construction of the China-Thailand railway, a bilateral flagship project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has said.
Thailand will create a rail system from Bangkok to Khon Kaen, Nong Khai, and extends all the way to China, aligning with the BRI, Srettha said on Tuesday.
The two provincial capital cities of Khon Kaen and Nong Khai are regarded as transport hubs to Thailand’s northeastern region.
“Logistics is a significant issue for Thailand regarding BRI cooperation and Thailand will enhance the connection between its domestic railways and the China-Laos Railway,” Srettha said in an interview with Xinhua earlier this month.
The China-Thailand railway, part of the trans-Asian railway network, will be Thailand’s first standard-gauge high-speed railway.
The line will see trains running from Bangkok to the border town of Nong Khai, where a bridge will connect it with the China-Laos Railway, allowing travel by train from Bangkok, through Laos, to Kunming in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
