As many as 100,000 laborers died in the construction of the Kunming–Haiphong railway, which opened on April 1, 1910. The cost was not worth it.

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[The China Project] ‘An imperial railway failure’: France’s disastrous colonization project on the China-Vietnam border

[The China Project] ‘An imperial railway failure’: France’s disastrous colonization project on the China-Vietnam border