As these students prepare for their classes in China, 28 Thai students are learning high-speed rail technology at Liuzhou Railway Vocational Technical College in Guangxi, China. Since President Xi Jinping put forward the Belt and Road initiative in the autumn of 2013, the leaders of China and Thailand have held multiple meetings and reached important consensus on synergising China’s Belt and Road with the Thailand 4.0, Eastern Economic Corridor, and other Thai development strategies. The two countries have signed memoranda of understanding on jointly promoting the Belt and Road and building the EEC. Over the past five years, we have witnessed the achievements of Belt and Road cooperation between China and Thailand. At present, we have 37,000 Chinese students in Thailand, and 27,000 Thai students in China.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 26, 2018 18:00 UTC