Beijing, Vientiane ink action plan for BRI works

President Xi Jinping called for a new era of China-Laos relations as he inked an action plan to jointly build a community with a shared future with his Laotian counterpart Bounnhang Vorachit on Tuesday in Beijing.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, made the remark during a meeting with the Laotian president, who is also general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee.

Xi and Bounnhang signed the action plan between the CPC and the LPRP, and witnessed the signing of a number of cooperation documents, including a cooperative framework for the China-Laos Economic Corridor and cooperation programs for the China-Laos Railway.