The heads of the international departments of the communist parties of China and Vietnam held an important meeting on March 18, in Jilin, north-east China, to further consolidate and develop the new stage in China-Vietnam friendly relations initiated with the respective visits of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and General Secretary Xi Jinping in 2022 … Continue reading Le Hoai Trung: Vietnam regards developing relations with China as the top priority of its foreign policy
ODA loan project from Asian Development Bank (ADB), French Development Agency (AFD), European Investment Bank (EIB) and French Government (DGT). Total estimated investment capital is up to 1.2 billion USD. After that, the project continued to increase capital by nearly 400 million Euros. (google translate)
huh! for some reason i thought all metros in hanoi were chinese and all in Hồ Chí Minh city japanese projects. (and to think of all those "haha yours will be chinese, bad quality, dangerous, we get it from japan, much better"... while they dont even have 1 line operational yet 🤔)
The project began construction on 2009 and was supposed to be completed in 2015, but experienced several delays and the completion deadline was pushed to 2027.
...also the cost constantly got way higher, but getting there 🥲
Nhon - Ha Noi metro contractor is not Chinese company. It's Hyundai (South Korea) - Ghella (Italy).
Also
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuy%E1%BA%BFn_s%E1%BB%91_3_(%C4%90%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng_s%E1%BA%AFt_%C4%91%C3%B4_th%E1%BB%8B_H%C3%A0_N%E1%BB%99i)
The one from China is Cat Linh - Ha Dong metro and it's the only one metro among below completed and operational since 2021.
huh! for some reason i thought all metros in hanoi were chinese and all in Hồ Chí Minh city japanese projects. (and to think of all those "haha yours will be chinese, bad quality, dangerous, we get it from japan, much better"... while they dont even have 1 line operational yet 🤔)