By Gleb Stolyarov
By Gleb Stolyarov
MOSCOW, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Russia and China have completed constructing the primary street bridge linking their two nations, Russian officers mentioned on Friday, within the newest signal of warming relations.
The bridge throughout the River Amur will join the cities of Blagoveshchensk in Russia’s Far East and Heihe in northeastern China and is meant to extend the amount of freight visitors and agricultural merchandise between the 2 nations.
It’s anticipated to open in spring 2020, Russia’s Ministry for the Growth of the Russian Far East and the Arctic mentioned.
“We’re forming a brand new worldwide transport hall,” Vasily Orlov, the Amur area’s governor, mentioned. “It’ll permit us to completely attain our transit potential.”
Mutual wariness and Russian fears of increasing Chinese language affect in its sparsely populated however mineral-rich far east have stymied such growth up to now.
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