A 31-year-old Lao doctoral candidate at Yunnan University in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, known by his Chinese name Wen Pengyu was on board the D887 train, the first international passenger train from Kunming to the Lao capital Vientiane, on April 13.
Wen told news portal Yunnan.cn that in anticipation of the opportunities to be brought by the international passenger train, he and a friend had registered an international travel agency in Kunming in March. “We want to bring Chinese tourists to Laos and Lao tourists to China to promote people-to-people exchanges between the two countries,” he said.
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