Recently, the railway vocational and technical college in Laos, which was built by the mainland, passed the completion acceptance. It is said that the college's hardware facilities and modern perfection are even better than those of the Lao National University. In the future, it will be one of the key schools in Laos, which will specialize in training professional skills and senior talents for Lao Railway.
Lao Railway Vocational and Technical College is an important supporting project of the overall project of China-Laos Railway, which is not only in Laos, but also the first railway professional technical school in the entire Southeast Asian region.
The importance of railway vocational and technical colleges to Laos
It may be that in our China, going to a railway vocational and technical college is not the best choice, it is generally the choice of people who do not study well and have ordinary families. But for Laos, especially in combination with the China-Laos Railway, which has only recently been completed, this is definitely a blessing in disguise.
Laos is a relatively backward country, the significance of the China-Laos railway to Laos is self-evident, which is equivalent to opening up the two veins of economic development for Laos, and in the future, it will usher in a great development and earth-shaking changes.
First ushered in the China-Laos Railway, and now, it has its own railway vocational and technical college, which is also the result of Laos' own right choice.
It turns out that choosing China is the most correct thing Laos can do
Since the mainland proposed the Belt and Road initiative, it has ushered in the support of some countries, of course, it has also ushered in the resistance of some countries, and Laos has not followed the trend, but insisted on its own choice, always stood with the mainland, and the mainland also did not live up to Laos' expectations and obtained one happy result after another.
01 China-Laos Railway
In December 2021, the Kunwan section of the China-Laos Railway was opened to traffic, and in April 2023, the cross-border passenger train of the China-Laos Railway was officially opened.
As of October this year, a total of 83,500 tons of fruits and vegetables have been transported, including 72,500 tons of fruits imported by China from Laos and 11,000 tons of fruits and vegetables exported by China to Laos, with a total value of more than 2.2 billion yuan. The cumulative cargo transported reached 26.8 million tons, and the outbound cargo volume reached 5.5 million tons.
02 Laos Railway Vocational and Technical College
In September 2021, the Laos Railway Vocational and Technical College officially started, it is the first railway vocational and technical college in Southeast Asia, which passed the completion acceptance in August 2023 and handed over to Laos on October 12.
Lao Railway Vocational and Technical College will train the first batch of railway technical talents belonging to Laos, so that Laos can fully realize independent management, maintenance and operation in the railway field, and provide a large number of employment opportunities for Laos.
It turns out that China is the best teacher
Facts have proved that China's support for Laos is really unreserved, wholehearted, and sincerely helping the development of Laos. First, it helped Laos build a railway, and although Laos could not afford so much money, China still chose to help Laos, so that Laos had its first regular railway. Then help Laos build a railway vocational and technical college, train its own railway talents, so that Laos has no worries.
For Laos, we really did it: help the horse, but also send Laos a ride!
In the past few decades, the mainland has suffered a lot in the use of Western technology, such as maintenance-related problems, Western technical experts from the moment they go out to calculate the labor cost, the world is without technology to see the face of others.
The mainland's help to Laos build a college of relevant technologies is to let Laos have no worries, and also to reassure Laos that China is not like those Western countries, China has its own principles and credibility.
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As a responsible major country, the mainland has always insisted on helping the development of its friendly neighboring countries, and the mainland has not hesitated to give due support in terms of capital or technology.
As the proponent of the Belt and Road initiative, the mainland wants to drive the economic development of neighboring countries in this way, which is beneficial and harmless in terms of economic development and long-term strategy. Some pro-Western countries, on the other hand, are very resistant, and judging by the gains in Laos, they have lost more than they have seen now.