On September 6, 2022, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said that the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is a flagship project of cooperation between China and Indonesia to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative. After completion, it will become the first high-speed railway in Indonesia and even in Southeast Asia, which will greatly enhance Indonesia's connectivity capabilities. , injecting strong impetus into local economic and social development.

Mao Ning introduced that since the opening of the China-Laos Railway for 9 months, a total of 6.71 million passengers and 7.17 million tons of cargo have been sent, including 1.28 million tons of cross-border cargo, and the total value of international freight has exceeded 10 billion yuan. It has become an accelerator for regional connectivity and a new engine for economic cooperation, and is generally welcomed by countries in the region.

Mao Ning said that the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway and the China-Laos railway are the vivid epitome of the cooperation between China and Southeast Asian countries in the nine years since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed, adhering to the principle of extensive consultation, joint construction and sharing, and deepening mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation. The cooperation between China and Southeast Asian countries to jointly build the Belt and Road will inject positive energy into regional development and world economic recovery.Editor/Ma Xue