From a Landlocked Country to a Land-linked Country:Reshaping of Laos'Spatial Pattern by the China-Laos Railway
For a long time,due to the constraints of being a landlocked country,Laos,which is located at the core of the connectivity continuum in the Mekong River region,has faced difficulties in playing its pivotal role.The successful completion of the China-Laos railway has not only changed this situation,but also reshaped the local spatial pattern as a whole.First,the economic interaction in-curred by the railway has broken its traditional pattern of development left by the colonial system.Secondly,the connectivity of the rail-way has significantly strengthened its structural position as a regional hub and accelerated its integration into regional social space.Third,the construction of the economic corridor promoted by the transnational infrastructure has enabled the logic of a community of a shared future to increasingly penetrate into the practice of Laos,and a transnationally interactive space under a new type of international relations has gradually emerged.As a result,by situating itself in the broader social and economic transformation process of the regional space,Laos has gradually transformed from a landlocked country to a land-linked country,and challenged the traditional non-histor-ic linear narrative with a three-dimensional narrative.
China-Laos railwayeconomic corridorspatial patternChina-Laos community of a shared future
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