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The Thái Nguyên–Kép railway line was a strategic, standard-gauge line constructed between October 1965 and December 1966 by a railroad engineering division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who operated in North Vietnam repairing railway lines at the request of Ho Chi Minh.
The Yunnan–Haiphong railway (Chinese: 滇越铁路; pinyin: Diānyuè Tiělù; Vietnamese: tuyến đường sắt Hải Phòng – Vân Nam / 綫塘鐵海防－雲南; French: Chemins de Fer de L'Indo-Chine et du Yunnan, "Indo-China–Yunnan Railroad") is an 855 km (531 mi) railway built by France from 1904 to 1910, connecting Haiphong, Vietnam, with Kunming, Yunnan province, China.
Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting for 65% of freight moved as of 2006—rail transport accounted for only 4% of freight transportation in 2008, and 5% of passenger transportation, leading it to be considered the "least relevant" of all modes of transport in the European Union's ...
The 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge Kunming–Hekou railway (previously known as the "Sino-Vietnamese Railway") was part of the Kunming–Haiphong railway built by French colonists between Vietnam and China.
The leaders of China and Vietnam hailed as "strategic" on Wednesday their decision to strengthen ties and be part of a community with a "shared future", as a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
China and Vietnam decided to promote cross-border standard railroad connectivity between China and Vietnam, study and promote the construction of the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Haiphong standard railroad in Vietnam and carry out feasibility studies on the Dong Dang - Hanoi and Mang Jie - Ha Long - Haiphong standard railroads in due course. [14]
The North–South express railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt cao tốc Bắc-Nam) is a planned high speed railway in Vietnam. [2] [3] The line would begin in Thanh Trì and end in Thủ Đức, connecting the two most urbanised areas in the country: Hanoi in the North, and Ho Chi Minh City in the South. [4]
In 2024, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính asked Chinese businesses to invest in developing Vietnam's rail sector and sought China's assistance in constructing the north–south high-speed railway as well as two additional high-speed railways further connecting Hanoi to the Chinese high-speed rail system. [15]