China is building a transnational railway network that reaches into southeast Asia from Kunming

At a tranquil courtyard in a remote village on the border of China and Myanmar, Ming Yong reviews his market investigation tour in Singapore and Thailand one month ago.

"Once the rail project is finished, the villagers here can pay a visit to Singapore directly by train," says Ming, a businessman from the border city of Ruili in China's southwestern Yunnan Province.

The railway he mentions is the west line of the transnational railway passing by way of Yunnan Province, which is also a essential component of the pan-Asian railway network.

The China Railway Group Limited (China Railway) announced late last week that it had signed an agreement with Myanmar to jointly create the railway that would extend by means of the southeast Asian nation.

This section of railway will run from Ruili to Myanmar's western port city of Kyaukphyu, with a length of 810 km.

"With the railway, our goods like rice and vegetables might be delivered to neighboring countries a lot more effortlessly," Ming says.

Having invested in a farm item marketplace, a vegetable base as well as a rice processing plant, Ming is confident about the prospect of his export-oriented organization since of the newly-planned railway.

Situated inside the southwest of China, Yunnan Province borders Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar with a boundary length of 4,000 km. At the beginning of this century, railway length within the province only took up three percent of the country's total.

China is building a transnational railway network that reaches into southeast Asia from Kunming, capital city of Yunnan. Two other lines are under construction in addition to the Ruili-Kyaukphyu railway.

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