The track laying to Vang Vieng station, a key part of the China-Laos railway project, was completed on Aug 28, built by Sinohydro Bureau 10 Co, a subsidiary of POWERCHINA.
With that, all the civil engineering construction tasks for the Vang Vieng station had been completed as scheduled.
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An aerial view of Vang Vieng station, on the China-Laos railway. [Photo/POWERCHINA] |
Vang Vieng station is located in Vang Vieng county outside Vientiane, capital city of Laos.
It covers an area of about 1.45 million square meters, which is about the size of 170 football fields.
As the construction period coincided with the rainy season, the amount of silt and wet soft soil in area was estimated at more than 70,000 cubic meters and the silt reached 3 meters at its deepest.
To ensure that the foundation met the load-bearing capacity requirements, the replacement volume of the foundation alone amounted to 50,000 cu m.
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Vang Vieng station is located in Vang Vieng county, outside Vientiane, capital of Laos. [Photo/POWERCHINA] |
Other engineering work included 2,997 m of station ditches, 166 catenary foundations, 3,000 m of cable troughs, 1,500 cu m of concrete for tunnels and escalators and 6,000 cu m of foundation bed surface fillings.
The China-Laos railway -- linking Kunming in Southwest China's Yunnan province with Vientiane -- is the first overseas railway project that is majority invested, constructed and operated by China.
It is also linked to the Chinese railway network, since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative.
POWERCHINA will make every effort to complete the remaining construction tasks safely and efficiently, to make the China-Laos railway a benchmark BRI project.
