The long-awaited cross-border railway bridge linking Russia and China throughout the Amur river is scheduled to be commissioned within the first quarter of 2022, authorities in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Area introduced on Wednesday.
The two,209-meter-long (1.four mile) construction will hyperlink Russia’s Far East with China’s northernmost Heilongjiang province. The Nizhneleninskoye (Jewish Autonomous Area) to Tongjiang (Heilongjiang province) bridge would be the first railway bridge between the 2 nations. It’s anticipated to carry bilateral commerce to new highs.
China has already accomplished the development of its a part of the construction. As for the Russian facet, the area’s performing governor Rostislav Goldstein stated earlier it “can be preferable to finish all of the work on time, which is the primary quarter of 2021.”
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Building of the cross-border bridge formally started in 2016, after 28 years of negotiations. The brand new bridge and its related infrastructure will probably be 19.9km (12.four miles) lengthy. Some 6.5km (four.1 miles) of the bridge and highway junctions will lie in China, and the remaining 13.5km (eight.four miles) will probably be positioned in Russia, in response to China’s CNS company.
The freeway part of the bridge over the Amur river was accomplished final yr. It should drastically facilitate commerce between the 2 nations, for the reason that route will probably be roughly three,500km (2,175 miles) shorter than earlier than. Russia plans to export iron ore, coal, mineral fertilizers, lumber and different items by way of the hyperlink to China.
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