On The Radar: Indonesia’s new railway & the BRI
备受瞩目：印度尼西亚新铁路和“一带一路”
Recently, Indonesia launched its first high-speed railway.
最近，印度尼西亚开通了第一条高速铁路。
The railway, opened on October 2, connects the capital Jakarta, with Bandung, roughly 140 kilometres away. Whoosh, the name for the Chinese-made bullet train, travels at 350 kilometres an hour and, according to Indonesian officials, will cut down a trip of normally three hours to less than an hour.
于10月2日开通，此条铁路将首都雅加达和140公里左右外的万隆连接在了一起。印度尼西亚官员称，中国制造的高铁“嗖嗖”时速达350km，把通常三个小时的旅程压缩到不到一个小时。
The railway project started in 2015 and construction was scheduled to finish in 2019. However, delays piled on: costs ballooned costs, there were issues around land acquisition, and the Covid-19 pandemic slowed construction.
铁路项目于2015年开工，原计划于2019年完工。然而，工期一拖再拖：费用不断飙升、土地征收出现问题及全球新冠疫情等问题拖缓了施工进度。
Whoosh is Indonesia’s - and Southeast Asia’s - first high-speed bullet train. The $US7.3 billion project was funded largely by Chinese state-owned firms and was built under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
“嗖嗖”是印度尼西亚乃至东南亚的第一条高速列车。耗资73亿美元，此项目主要由中国国有企业出资，并在中国“一带一路”倡议下建造。
The BRI is a Chinese infrastructure strategy launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013.
“一带一路”倡议是中国的一项基础设施战略，于2013年由国家主席习近平提出。
It’s an investment worth billions of dollars and involves massive infrastructure projects that build a “belt” of overland corridors and a “road” of shipping lanes connecting China to countries across Asia, Europe and Africa.
该倡议投资价值数十亿美元，涉及大规模基础设施项目，通过陆路通道的“带”（源自丝绸之路经济带the Silk Road Economic Belt）和海上航道的“路”（源自21世纪海上丝绸之路21st-Century Maritime Silk Road）将中国与亚洲、欧洲和非洲各国连接起来。
Since its launch, the BRI has become a dynamic concept and contains more than physical transportation connections like railways and ports – it encompasses bilateral cooperation across trade and policy and investment in sectors ranging from health and technology to telecommunications.
自提出以来，“一带一路”倡议已成为一个充满活力的概念，不但包括铁路、港口等有形的交通形式连接，还涵盖了贸易和政策方面的双边合作，涉及医疗、技术、电信等领域的投资。
来源：Asia Media Centre
发表时间：2023-10-09
检索：何玥
翻译：杨文慧
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