Although the 22-year-old Lao girl Hida Pingpong Sawan looks weak on the outside, she has a firm "steel locomotive dream"-to be a train driver. Sidar’s hometown of Mengsai is only about 100 kilometers away from China’s Mohan Port, but heavy mountains have severely blocked the local channel for communication with China. Cida, who has never been out of the mountain, has always wanted to see what it looks like on the other side of the mountain.

In fact, this is also the common wish of many Lao people. Laos, known as the "roof of the Indochina Peninsula", mountains and plateaus account for 80% of the country's land area, with extremely inconvenient transportation, and it is also the only landlocked country among ASEAN countries. Breaking through the heavy mountain blockade and "turning a land-locked country into a land-union" is a great wish of the Lao people. In 2015, the governments of China and Laos signed an intergovernmental railway cooperation agreement, marking the formal entry of the China-Laos railway into the implementation stage and an opportunity to realize the wishes of the Lao people.Editor/Baohongying