(Hà Khẩu-Lào Cai) bridge There are bus route to all destinations within Yunnan, including an overnight sleeper service from Kunming. More destinations can be reached by transfer in
Mengzi.
Highway There is a highway linking Xinjie, a town in Hekou County, with
Lào Cai Province in northern Vietnam. It opened in February 2008 and marked the completion of the first highway linking Yunnan with a neighboring country from the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The 56.3 kilometer, 3.58 billion yuan Xinhe highway is one of the numerous infrastructure projects that will increase connectivity between Yunnan and ASEAN and facilitate the transport of people and goods between the two regions, which are expecting to see a major increase in tourism and trade in the coming years.
Railway The narrow-gauge
Yunnan–Vietnam Railway, connecting
Kunming with the port of
Haiphong, opened by the French in 1910, crosses the China-Vietnam border in Hekou. In December 2014, the last section (
Mengzi–Hekou) of the new standard-gauge Kunming-Hekou Railway was completed. It ends at the new
Hekou North Railway Station, which is also connected by narrow-gauge tracks to the old railway, in order to facilitate cargo movement between China and Vietnam. ==References==