KUNMING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- China has completed a feasibility study for the construction of the China section of the proposed Pan-Asian Railway that will run from Singapore, through Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar before reaching China's Yunnan Province, a leading local Party official said.
The new 340-km-long railway section will connect Dali, a well-known scenic site in Yunnan Province, southwest China, to Ruili, another Yunnan town on the Sino-Myanmar border.
The feasibility study calls for a construction budget for Dali-Ruili railway section of 10 billion yuan (about 1.23 billion U.S. dollars), said Bai Enpei, secretary of Yun Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. He said construction work on the section could begin soon.
The proposed 2,600 km-long Pan-Asian Railway will start in Singapore, pass through Kuala Lumpua in Malaysia, Thailand's capital Bangkok, Yangon in Myanmar, and terminate in Kunming, capital of Yunnan.
Completion of the Pan-Asian Railway is expected to boost the economies, trade cooperation and friendly ties of China and the other countries along the railway, say Chinese experts. Enditem
