For Panalo, a Thai girl in childhood, the railway always connects her home in Chiang Mai at one end and her grandparents' home in Nakhon Ratchasima at the other end. Whenever the train slowly leaves the station, she always looks forward to arriving early. During the long journey, the scenery that keeps retreating outside the window is her childhood memory. "It's a long journey, and the Thai railway is very slow, so it's very hard to take the train." Pennallo, 32, said. (This is a picture of the construction site of the China Thailand Railway (UAV) taken in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on November 10.). Wang Teng, reporter from Xinhua News Agency) Because he likes Chinese culture and is optimistic about the prospects of economic and trade cooperation between China and Thailand, Panalo gave up studying Japanese after graduating from high school, turned to Chinese, and studied in China for many years after graduating from college. After returning to Thailand, she was successfully employed as a full-time translator of the Supervision Station of the China Thailand Railway Phase I Project Department. Pannaluo, who has studied and lived in China for many years, has witnessed the dividends that high-speed railway brings to the lives and economic development of people along the line. She looks forward to the early completion and opening of the China Thailand Railway to help Thailand's economic and social development. "I think high-speed rail can bring new hope to people, whether it is more convenient transportation or faster economic and social development." "From Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchas, the China Thailand Railway will stop at many small places, which will bring great transportation convenience to these places, attract tourists and drive local economic development." She said. As the flagship project of the "the Belt and Road" jointly built by China and Thailand and the first standard gauge high-speed railway in Thailand, the China Thailand railway is designed and built in accordance with Chinese standards. The first phase of the project connects Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima. The second phase of the project will extend to Langkai, an important trade town in the northeast, and will link up with the China Laos railway. Kunming can be reached through Boten in Laos and Mohan in China. "After the completion of the China Thailand Railway, it can be connected with the China Laos Railway. At that time, I can travel to China by train from Thailand through Laos. I want to go to Jiuzhaigou, China, Tibet and Xinjiang, and Beijing to climb the Great Wall. I'm looking forward to that day." She said. For the convenience of work, Panalo now lives in the house of his grandparents in Nakhon Ratchasima. Nakhon Ratchasima is the terminus of the first phase of the China Thailand Railway, which is more than two hours away from Bangkok. However, due to the old railway system built a hundred years ago, it takes more than four hours to travel by train. After the first phase of the China Thailand Railway is completed and opened to traffic, the one-way time will be shortened to more than one hour, bringing a qualitative leap to the Thai railway. (On November 10, Panalo (middle), a Thai girl, worked at the construction site of the China Thailand Railway in Nakhon Ratchasima. Photographed by Wang Teng, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency) My grandparents, who are over 80 years old, are very happy to learn that she is working on the Sino Thai railway construction project. "They want to go to Bangkok to visit their relatives and friends, but now they have been travelling by train for a long time, so it will be worse if they run into traffic jams. They can't stand it. They hope that the China Thailand Railway can be opened soon, and they can often take the high-speed railway to Bangkok to visit their relatives." Ma Shengshuang, the general manager of the Thailand Branch of China Railway Design Group Co., Ltd., who is responsible for the supervision of the first phase of the China Thailand Railway Project, said that the first phase of the project was divided into 14 bid sections, one of which has been completed, three of which are in the process of bidding, and the remaining 10 are under construction. Benefiting from the favorable factors such as the improvement of the epidemic situation in Thailand, the construction of the project has been accelerated and is in solid progress