A pilot passenger road transport route through Vietnam’s Hai Phong city and Hanoi and China’s Kunming city has been opened, expected to help promote trading activities between the two countries.
Hai Phong (VNA) – A pilotpassenger road transport route through Vietnam’s Hai Phong city and Hanoi and China’sKunming city has been opened, expected to help promote trading activitiesbetween the two countries.
The opening ceremony was held at Thuong Ly BusStation in Hai Phong on September 17.
The piloting of this route and the upcomingfreight transport route through the Chinese city of Shenzhen and Hanoi is organisedby the two countries’ ministries of transport. It will force the two sides tothink about obstacles to vehicles travelling on the routes so as to work outsolutions, thus enhancing land transportation deep into each other’sterritories.
To implement the Vietnam-China road transportagreement signed in 1994 and the protocols on revisions to and implementationof this agreement signed in 2011, the two ministries held ceremonies to markthe operation of freight and passenger transport vehicles and State-owned carson the Hai Phong-Ha Noi-Kunming, Hanoi-Nanning, and Hanoi-Shenzhen routes inAugust 2012, and the Cao Bang-Baise route in July 2013.
However, the numbers of passenger and freighttransport vehicles using these routes remain limited.
Fei Zaiming, Director of the Department of RoadTransport Management of China’s Yunnan province, said Vietnam and China areneighbouring countries with extensive trade and cultural relations. The openingof these routes is necessary to contribute to bilateral ties.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Transport NguyenVan Cong said the piloting of the Hai Phong-Hanoi-Kunming and Hanoi-Shenzhenroutes is important to fostering cross-border transportation activities andmeeting the demands for goods exchange, tourism, and economic activitiesbetween the two countries.
The pilot Shenzhen-Hanoi freight transport routewill be opened with a ceremony in the Chinese city on September 19. –VNA
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A passenger car crossing the route (Photo: VNA) 
