1st bridge beam erected along China-Laos railway
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On the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of National Day of Lao People's Democratic Republic, the first China-Laos Railway T-shaped concrete beam was successfully erected at the site of China Railway No.2 Engineering Group (CREC-2) in Lao capital Vientiane on Sunday.
Xinhua丨Updated: December 3, 2018
The first China-Laos Railway T-shaped concrete beam was successfully erected in Lao capital Vientiane, Dec. 2, 2018. The successful erection of the first simply supported T-shaped concrete beam marks that the construction of China-Laos railway has been transferred from substructure to superstructure and it will become the milestone in the history of the construction of China-Laos railway, according to China Railway No.2 Engineering Group (CREC-2) . The operating speed of trains on the route is designed to be 160 km per hour. The railway is expected to be fully operational in December 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
