On 5 August, the Lao-China Railway awarded driver certificates to 14 Lao nationals who efficiently accomplished a self-driven check. This certification ceremony marks the primary time Lao residents have acquired this recognition.
The journey to certification started in June 2022, with an preliminary cohort of 66 individuals present process intensive theoretical and sensible coaching to grow to be licensed railway workers.
By late 2023, a range course of narrowed the group to 30 drivers, who had been tasked with working trains over a mixed distance exceeding 100,000 kilometers.
Finally, solely 14 drivers demonstrated distinctive efficiency, incomes them the official certificates collectively issued by the Lao-China Railway and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.
To have a good time the event, Deputy Minister of Public Works and Transport, Xaysongkham Manothin, praised the newly licensed drivers, noting that their achievement displays the profitable partnership between Laos and China in coaching expert railway professionals.
Trying forward, Liu Hong, Director Basic of the Laos-China Railway, outlined plans to develop extra Lao consultants in railway operations, improve the railway system’s high quality, and enhance individuals’s lives.
To take action, Liu Hong defined that the railway will maintain extra workshops and coaching packages for Lao staff, specializing in key job roles, creating specialised abilities, and refining the coaching system to create the primary technology of Lao executives and technicians in railway operations.
