Ate Hoekstra and me went to Lao’s capital Vientiane to document how Chinese investment in development in the city has dramatically increased in the last years, lots of real estate new promotions, some of them at large scale, including one with a huge perfectly round artificial lake. Also investment in infrastructure such as the high speed railway which will connect (through 418-kilometer) Kunming, the capital of southwestern China’s Yunnan province, to the Laotian capital of Vientiane.