Venezuela seeks to learn from China's high-speed rail and other infrastructural achievements that link people and connect the world, said Nicolas Maduro Guerra, the president of the China-Venezuela Parliamentary Friendship Group, also son of current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Commemorating 50 years of friendship between China and Venezuela, Guerra noted that Venezuela aims to learn from China's development model and to build the "Venezuelan dream" like the Chinese have been doing with the "Chinese dream."
"We'll be on the high-speed train for a few days. This visit, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of relations, between Venezuela and China, begins in Beijing. And then we're going to Shandong, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Why did we choose these cities? Because these were the cities visited by President Nicolas Maduro," he said.
China is home to the fastest trains in the world, operating a vast and still-expanding network that surpassed 45,000 kilometers of track by 2023. Guerra highlighted the train system as an achievement worth emulating.
"It's an example of harmonious development, rapid development and sustainable development. It's really a wonderful train. And it's part of what we want to take from China: the development model, the model of building a humane and fair society, of harmonious economic development that allows us to achieve the Venezuelan dream. It's about how we envision Venezuela as an economically advanced society, politically democratic with strong values of truth and honesty and a developed society. This is the dream of Venezuela," he added.
Venezuela inspired by China's high-speed trains in its own pursuit of development
