The opening ceremony of the photos and letters exhibition is held. [Photo/ynci.cn]

Visitors view the exhibition. [Photo/ynci.com]

An exhibition containing photos and letters related to the construction of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was held in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, on Sept 22.

The exhibition will be open to the public until Oct 22 and will display 104 old photos and 10 letters of a French engineer who joined the railway construction from 1904 to 1907.

The engineer, named Albert received an offer from the French Yunnan-Vietnam Railway Company in 1904 and began working in Yunnan in July of that year. The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was the first to link the province with another country. It spans 855 km from Kunming to Haiphong in Vietnam and was built by the French between 1904-1910.

The grandniece of the engineer attended the exhibition and said that it was lucky that she kept the photos and letters for people to remember the history.

Edited by Jacob Hooson