The world's first desert railway loop has been opened to traffic in the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang, China.
The China-Laos Railway was built by China and was constructed by China using Chinese technology. It has been open to traffic for a long time. In Thailand, only Chinese technology was used and Chinese companies were not allowed to construct it. As a result, it took many years before it got started.
The biggest advantage of China-Laos Railway and China-Myanmar Railway is that it connects the southwest region, which is located inland and has inconvenient transportation, with nearby foreign ports. It provides great convenience for import and export and will make Yunnan's economy take off.
If there is a two-ocean heavy-haul railway from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean , it can connect the logistics and human flow of a total of 3 billion people in India, Bangladesh , Sri Lanka, Myanmar , and China. From Fangcheng Port via Xishuangbanna and Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar, to Kyaukpyu Port .
A more ideal route is to lead from the Jinghong Station of the Kunming-Bangkok Railway, exit Jindalok to Naypyitaw, the new capital of Myanmar, connect with Myanmar's existing railway network, and go to the sea through Yangon Port . The problem is that the Myanmar authorities cannot control eastern Myanmar.
So, Myanmar is more important than Taiwan. However, Myanmar has become a poor student in modern times because of its half-hearted attitude towards China.
Kunming Refinery has an annual output of more than 20 million tons Saudi Arabia has been in production for five years and has been transported to Kyaukpyu Port by tanker. Kunming's natural gas is also transported by oil pipeline from Kyaukpyu Port. In the future, oil pipelines will be built to Chongqing and Guiyang.
If Myanmar can realize the truth of following China from the successful cooperation on the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline, it will definitely become an advanced country.
The China-Laos Railway was the first to Laos , which completely eliminated the advantages of the Vietnam Railway , and also put pressure on Myanmar. Therefore, Laos made up its mind to build the China-Laos Railway. Although it took 11 years to build, it has been successfully opened to traffic. The effect is beyond words. If it is impossible to build the China-Myanmar Railway or the China-Thailand Railway alone, they should both be linked to Vientiane for transit!
The current situation of the Pan-Asia Railway is to operate the China-Laos Railway well and develop it from Vientiane, Laos as the center to the east, west and south. Eventually all three lines of the Pan-Asian Railway will be connected, and from now on Southeast Asia will be China’s back garden. Myanmar on the western line of the Pan-Asian Railway has access to the sea, which is the key!
The Western Line of the Pan-Asia Railway, the China-Myanmar Railway, still has to wait for China's high-speed rail Gaogong Lishan Tunnel to be opened. It is too difficult to open that tunnel. Construction of the 34.5-kilometer-long Gaoligong Mountain Railway Tunnel started in 2014! It is said that the Kunrui high-speed railway will be opened to traffic after 2023. However, the railway from Lincang to Qingshuihe is ready to start work, and it will connect to Lawu, Myanmar very soon! Currently, there is no railway going further south from Lincang.
The China-Myanmar Railway project plans to build the Muse-Mandalay section in the near future, and the long-term plan is to extend from Ruili, China to Kyaukphyu, Myanmar, passing through Muse, Lashio, Mandalay, and Magway in Myanmar. , Minwu and other places.
Yangon is not the capital of Myanmar now, it is considered the largest city in Myanmar.
The China-Myanmar Railway, also known as the "China-Myanmar International Railway", starts from Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China, and ends in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar. It is an important section of the Western Line of the Pan-Asia Railway. According to the plan, the total length of the Kunming to Yangon railway is about 1,920 kilometers, and the total length of the Kunming to Ruili railway in China is 690 kilometers.
The China-Myanmar Railway is divided into four sections: the Kunming-Dali section, Dali-Ruili section, Ruili-Larong section, and the Larong-Yangon section.
1. The Kunming-Chuxiong-Dali Railway, also known as the Kunming-Chuxiong Intercity Railway, runs east-west and is also the western part of the Pan-Asian Railway. It is 350 kilometers long and was completed and started operation on July 1, 2018. The journey from Kunming to Dali has been shortened from about 6 hours to less than 2 hours, with a design speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
2. Dali to Ruili Railway , with a length of 340 kilometers and a design speed of 140 kilometers per hour, is a national railway Class I single-track electrified railway. On March 28, 2022, after 14 years of construction, all 21 tunnels, an important part of the China-Myanmar International Corridor, will be connected and are expected to be put into operation within this year. By then, it will only take about one hour from Dali to Baoshan.
The Baoshan to Ruili section of the Pan-Asia Railway West Line officially started construction on December 1, 2015. The Yunnan section of the Western Line of the Pan-Asia Railway starts from Kunming, passes through Chuxiong, Dali, and Baoshan in Yunnan, and finally reaches Ruili, a small town on the China-Myanmar border.The total length of the section from Baoshan to Ruili is 196.42 kilometers, with a design speed of 140 kilometers per hour. The key and difficult control project in the section from Baoshan to Ruili, Gaoligong Mountain Tunnel , the longest mountain railway tunnel in Asia, was under construction ahead of schedule in December 2014.
3. From Muse Town, Ruili City to Lashio on the China-Myanmar border. Among them, Muse- Ruili Port is the largest port on the border between China and Myanmar, and the land transportation from Ruili to Muse via Mandalay to Yangon is currently increasing day by day. The land trade from Mandalay to Muse is now only one Roads are used for trade transportation and congestion occurs from time to time. The Muse-Mandalay railway has a total length of 431 kilometers and a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
4, Lashio-Yangon Railway, about 1,000 kilometers long, is Myanmar's existing meter gauge railway .
High-speed railways cannot have sharp turns, but slow-speed railways do not matter. Myanmar’s existing railways are narrow gauge left behind by the British, and the speed is still shaky at 30 kilometers. The meter-gauge railway in Myanmar is only 30 kilometers away from Ruili, China, and can reach the entire territory of Myanmar, but the gauge is different.
Most of Myanmar's railway facilities, locomotives and vehicles are imported from China. China's Dalian Locomotive Factory designed and manufactured meter-gauge diesel locomotives for Myanmar Railway, and some are second-hand commuter cars that have been eliminated by Japan. Myanmar is planning to promote China-Myanmar, Myanmar-Thailand, and Myanmar-India interconnection projects. Among them, the China-Myanmar railway project plans to build the Muse-Mandalay section in the near future. The long-term plan is to extend from Ruili, China to Kyaukpyu, Myanmar, passing through Muse, Lat, Myanmar. Xu, Mandalay, Magui, Minwu and other places.
#China-Laos Railway International Freight Train#
