VIENTIANE: Resisting risks from the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the Chinese and Lao engineers and workers are working around the clock to extend the China-Laos railway north to the border.
In Laos capital Vientiane, the early May's scorching sun has not dispersed the risks of the pandemic, while the Chinese and Lao railway builders on the outskirts of the city have been sweating like bulls, struggling to lay rails towards China, as to ensure the completion on time.
With its first 500-meter-long rail steadily laid on the subgrade in Vientiane, the CREC-2 kicked off its track laying work on March 27. Till early May, the Chinese company has completed over 30 kilometers' track laying, and Chen has become the first train driver to run on the first modern advanced railway in Laos.
He told Xinhua that he is happy to be able to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative construction, and in the construction of the China-Laos Railway at the end of his career. However, he has some concerns about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, since many Chinese staff can not return to their posts in Laos and some local staff have to stay at home because of the lockdown in Laos.
"In order to maintain the current construction pace along the China-Laos railway, we are comprehensively implementing the control measures to ensure progress, quality and safety," Hu Bin, the CREC-2 railing project manager in Vientiane, said. "We are extending the railway northward and extending to China. The closer we are to our homeland, the more excited we are," Lei said.
So far, the railway's off-line bridges, tunnels, roadbeds and other civil engineering work have entered the final stage, and the on-line track, power, communication signal, mechanical and electrical engineering, and station building have been fully launched.
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