Mutual trust drives growing cooperation

President Xi Jinping's ongoing visit to Cambodia four months after Cambodian Senate President Samdech Techo Hun Sen visited China offers the two sides a good opportunity to strengthen their "ironclad" friendship and realize the full potential of cooperation.

Cambodia has expeditiously developed its economy owing to the Belt and Road Initiative-induced improvement in infrastructure connectivity and logistics and industrial upgrading. Not to mention that China has helped build about 4,000 kilometers of roads, more than 10 big bridges and 10 hydropower stations in Cambodia.

Besides, after the opening of the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway, the travel time between the two places has been halved, the journey is safer, and logistic efficiency has greatly improved. The latest example of the in-depth cooperation between the two sides is the National Road 71C. It opened on Saturday and will boost economic and tourism development.