Railways aim to boost trade in Southeast Asia

Authorities in Yunnan province will continue to push for enhanced links with Southeast Asia to boost cross-border infrastructure, trade and tourism, a senior official said on Monday.

"We will step up the construction of infrastructure linking our province with its bordering countries, including transportation, electricity, information transmission, warehousing and logistics," Chen Hao, acting governor of the province, said in a work report to the annual session of the Yunnan Provincial People's Congress.

China drafted a preliminary plan in 2013 to build three railway lines connecting Yunnan's capital Kunming to Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.