Feature: China-Laos railway brings up Lao apprentice to craftsman

Noy Sonemany (2nd R), a 26-year-old Laotian, toasts his colleagues with beer near a workshop at the steel structure processing plant of the China Railway NO.5 Engineering Group (CREC-5)'s China-Laos Railway Project division in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha, March 21, 2019. The 414.332-km China-Laos Railway runs from Boten bordering China in northern Laos to the capital of Vientiane with an operating speed of 160 km per hour. The China-Laos Railway adopts Chinese technical standards and uses Chinese equipment. It started construction in December 2016 and is scheduled to be completed and opened to traffic in December 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang)