China-Laos Railway trains carry 81,000 cross-border passengers

KUNMING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 81,000 cross-border passengers have used the international train service on the China-Laos Railway over the past six months, border control authorities in southwest China's Yunnan Province said.

Among them, more than 15,000 were foreigners from more than 60 countries and regions, according to the exit-entry frontier inspection station of Mohan on the China-Laos border, which had handled 370 passenger trains at the Mohan railway port as of Friday.