The Ha Noi Action Plan 2018–2022

THE HA NOI ACTION PLAN 2018–2022

MARCH 2018

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Top row, from left: Trucks passing through Asian Highway 131 (Route 12); a view of Highway No. 12 linking the eastern and western parts of Thailand; A logistics center inspection and quarantine facility in the People’s Republic of China; boats transporting tourists to Phong Nha National Park.

Middle row, from left: The 1,070-megawatt Nam Theun 2 hydropower plant along the Nam Theun River in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic exports 95% of the power it produces to Thailand, while the rest are consumed locally; the construction of two cable-stayed bridges across the Mekong River under the Central Mekong Delta Region Connectivity Project provide efficient access from Ho Chi Minh City to the southern coastal region; the visitors’ center at the Nam Theun 2 hydropower plant; the Tsubasa Bridge, which opened in 2015, is along Cambodia’s National Road No. 1 that connects Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh (photo by Mardy Suong).

Bottom row, from left: Sompong Visetsin (left), a cooling systems and refrigeration teacher, and her students at the Champasak Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institution; the 8.3 kilometer long Nhat Tan Bridge, also called the Viet Nam–Japan Friendship Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Red River; the Vo Nguyen Giap Expressway that runs from Ha Noi to Noi Bai International Airport was completed on 4 January 2015; Wang Shilin is checking power generation operations in a plant in the People’s Republic of China; the Bo Aung Kyaw Port is an important entry point for goods into Yangon; young women engineers at a construction site in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.

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