A song and a picture book "compose the road of friendship between China and Laos Railway"

Xishuangbanna, 4 April (ZXS) -- A song and a picture book "compose the road of friendship between China and Laos Railway."

China News Agency reporter Miao Chao

"Next month, my parents plan to take the Lao-China Railway international passenger train from Vientiane to Kunming to visit me. I also plan to take my Chinese classmates to Vientiane to experience the Laos style during the summer vacation. Lao youth Sompa Song Tonwang told reporters on the 26th.

On the same day, the premiere ceremony of the rap song "Take the High-Speed Train to See the Sea" (Laowen) and the hand-painted book "Take the Train to Laos" (Zhonglaowen) were held in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, along the China-Laos Railway. Sompa Song Thungwang sang "Take the high-speed train to see the sea" in Lao during the ceremony.

Sompa Song Thong Wang is 23 years old and his hometown is Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Four years ago, he flew to China to study financial management at Yunnan University for Nationalities. On April 4 this year, the China-Laos Railway international passenger train started, realizing the "twin city life" from Kunming, China to Vientiane, Laos, which narrowed the distance between Songba Song Thong Wang and his relatives in his hometown, and also opened a window for his Chinese classmates to understand Laos.

Songba Song Tongwang has a pleasant voice and loves singing since childhood. After studying in China, he developed in the direction of music while studying, and sang for China-Laos friendship cultural and artistic activities many times.

Song Ba Song Tongwang's "Riding the High-Speed Train to See the Sea" (old text) sung this time was jointly produced by the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, the Yunnan People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and the Yunnan Branch of China News Service, hoping to promote mutual learning between the civilizations of China and Laos and inherit the traditional friendship with song. The Chinese version of the song was jointly produced by China News Network and the Yunnan Branch of China News Service, and was launched at the 2023 "Thousands of Miles to Welcome Spring and Mountains and Seas Compete for Glory" China, India, Cambodia and Mongolia Spring Festival Cultural Exchange Gala and Spring Festival Cultural Exchange Series Activities, which was very popular.

"The lyrics express the hope that the people of the two countries will bring tangible benefits to the Lao-China Railway along the line, and can continue to extend forward and play a demonstration driving effect." Sompa Song Tonwang said, "Before the opening of the Lao-China Railway, the well-known Lao singer Atisa composed the song "Moving Forward on the China-Laos Railway", singing the Lao people's expectations and yearning for the opening of this railway and the country's development, and also expressed the brotherhood of Laos and China 'drinking the same river'. ”

The Lancang-Mekong River, which winds thousands of kilometers, starts from China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and flows south through Yunnan and through Laos. The people of China and Laos have been drinking the same river since ancient times, and their destinies are closely linked. After the opening of the China-Laos Railway, it has further promoted the economic and social development of the two countries, witnessed the long-standing friendship between China and Laos, and not only become a bridge for the interconnection of the two countries, but also a link of people-to-people bonds.

Nowadays, the China-Laos Railway is a well-known "net red railway" in both China and Laos, and more and more cultural and artistic works have been created around it. At the launch ceremony, a hand-painted book called "Taking the Train to Laos" (Chinese and Lao) also met with the Chinese and Lao people.

Planned and published by Yunnan Education Press, the hand-painted book tells the story of Xiaoling (Yunnan golden snub-nosed monkey) a Chinese tourist and Akang (Lao black langur), a Lao trainee who completed railway professional training in Kunming, China, who took the train to Vientiane together, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery along the way with the uncle elephant (Asian elephant) on the train, carrying the generational friendship of the Chinese and Lao people across the mountains and rivers, and completing a romantic journey.

"Like-minded people are not far from mountains and seas." Lai Yong, full-time deputy director of the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, said that he hopes that these two works can attract and drive more people to take the China-Laos Railway, and believes that with the joint efforts of the people of China and Laos, there will be more shared and win-win hopes on this road of hope paved by camellia and Champa, and finally become a reality. (End)