Bullet train to link Thailand, China
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THAILAND has approved a US$23.3 billion high-speed railway program, directly leading to Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan Province in China. The construction, to take place from 2015 to 2021, accords with the Trans-Asian Railway plan proposed by China and will benefit China with stronger economic influence in this area.
The project involves two lines inside Thailand, one starting from Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya to Chiang Rai, the northern border and the other from Rayong to Nong Khai. China will provide technology and equipment in exchange for imports of rice from Thailand.
Though China has only about 10 years’ history of high-speed railways, its traffic mileage and production scale rank first in the world. A high-speed train ticket is much cheaper (one-fourth to one-fifth the price of other countries) in China. This project is part of the Trans-Asian Railway, a 3,000-mile high-speed railway planned to connect Kunming, capital city of Yunnan Province, with Singapore via Laos, Thailand and Malaysia. The Trans-Asian Railway will be divided into four parts: Kunming to Vientiane, Vientiane to Bangkok, Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur, and Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.
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