According to Jin10, China Railway Kunming Group Co., Ltd. said that as of October 9, cumulative passenger traffic on the China-Laos Railway had exceeded 80 million over nearly five years of full-line operation. Since the line opened, passenger traffic has steadily risen and repeatedly hit new highs, with the domestic section's average daily passenger trains increasing from 8 to a peak of 86 and the Laos section's from 4 to a peak of 18.