The ground breaking ceremony of Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway project was held in Walini, West Java province, on January 21, 2016.
Chinese State Councilor Wang Yong and Indonesian President Joko Widodo attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the project. The project will be jointly carried out by both Indonesian and Chinese firms, including POWERCHINA. Yan Zhiyong, the chairman of POWERCHINA, attended the ceremony.
Wang Yong read a congratulatory message from Chinese President Xi Jinping to Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the ceremony. In the message, Xi Jinping said that the successful launch of the project will become a new model for bilateral cooperation in various fields, particularly in infrastructure and production capacity.
Joko Widodo said, "This is a great project jointly pushed by Indonesian and Chinese governments," and that he expected that further cooperation between Indonesia and China could be more intense.The high-speed railway, linking the capital Jakarta and the fourth largest city of Bandung, has a distance of 142 kilometers. Travel time between the two cities will be cut from more than 3 hours at present to less than 40 minutes once the project is finished.
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