But due to weather conditions, the port is only accessible 240 days a year, and transportation is carried out by hovercraft, floating bridge and ice roads in winter. Heihe port is China's important border trading port with Russia, and it is the border waterway port with the shortest shipping distance and largest capacity between China and Russia. Russia's Far East region has in recent years been upping the stakes in farm produce and food processing and the newly opened road bridge would facilitate shipments of Russian agricultural products into China, Zhang said. The availability of the China-Russia highway bridge facilities trade between Northeast China and Russia's Far East region, adding to existing conduits linking the two countries that span railways, inland waterways, sea freight and pipelines, Zhang Hong, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Friday. The team-up between Northeast China and the Russian Far East region maintains good momentum and the two regions are expected to deepen pragmatic cooperation in varied areas for the partnering achievements to better benefit the people of both countries. Hu said that the highway bridge is a major cross-border infrastructure project jointly pushed by Chinese and Russian presidents.Ĭhina stands ready to meet Russia half way and the bridge opening will steadily push for mutual connectedness and provide better and more convenient customs clearance and logistics services for bilateral flows of people and trade, Hu said. The highway opening is set to foster trade between Northeast China and Russia in the agricultural sector, experts said, expecting the increased road connectivity to convert the bilateral strategic partnership into more trade bonuses.Īccording to the report, the Heihe highway port was also put into service the same day, which combined with the opening of Heilongjiang bridge, marks the opening of a new international transportation channel between Northeast China and Russian Far East.Īlong with the opening of a road port and the Heihe-Blagoveshchensk highway bridge, China and Russia will also set up a bridgehead cross-border economic cooperation zone to facilitate comprehensive cooperation and further opening-up between China and Russia, meet soaring demand in economy and trade, and promote the development of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination, the CCTV report said.Ĭhinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua and Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev attended the highway bridge opening ceremony via video link on Friday, according to the Xinhua News Agency. It will open a new international highway that will boost the connectivity between cities in China and Russia. The first China-Russia highway bridge, which stretches from Heihe, a border city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, to the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk spanning the Heilongjiang River, opened to traffic on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.
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