Summary:
“With joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed rail link could be established between the two cities,” Mr.
Ma said at a conference in Kolkata. more-inChinese Consul-General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu on September 12 said his country was mooting a bullet train service between Kunming and Kolkata, traversing through Myanmar and Bangladesh. “It will only take a few hours to reach Kolkata from Kunming if the rail link becomes a reality,” he asserted. The project had also found mention at the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) meeting at Kunming in 2015, he said. That increases the possibility of economic development of countries involved in the 2,800 km-long project,” he said..