Thailand approves $5.5 bn bullet train project with China
China has received the first overseas order to export its bullet train technology as Thailand approved a USD 5.5 billion high-speed railway project aimed at linking Bangkok with southern China. The project is part of China’s huge regional infrastructure plan to build a high-speed rail network connecting the southern city of Kunming with Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
Construction has already begun in Laos but the Thai segment of rail has been stymied for years by tussles over financing, loan terms and protective labour regulations in Thailand, China’s state-run television CNTN has reported. The high-speed railway is set to start operations in 2021.
The Thai order is a breakthrough of sorts for the Chinese multibillion high speed train technology as China’s attempts to export the bullet train technology were bogged down due to political issues, finance or stiff competition from Japan. China is also trying to get the New Delhi-Chennai route for the high-speed train and started feasibility study for it.
Beijing was upset after India’s first bullet train route was bagged by Japan which is currently building Mumbai- Ahmedabad bullet train to operate its Shinkansen bullet trains. China has already built a massive network of bullet trains connecting most of its cities.
It has the world’s longest railway network, 22,000 kilometres by the end of 2016, about 60 per cent of the total network.
News Source: PTI
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