“China is willing to work with Malaysia to actively study the East Coast Railway, connect the middle section of the China-Laos Railway and take the Pan-Asia Railway Central Line from concept to reality.”
The ECRL launched to great fanfare in 2017 as a flagship project of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Malaysia. It was billed as a replacement for a colonial-era train system, upgrading it to an electrified rail line that promises to halve the travel time for freight and passengers to and from capital city Kuala Lumpur.
