Chinese ambassador to Moscow calls for the neighbours to build more cross-border bridges and corridors to slash logistics costs
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China’s top envoy to Russia has urged more transport infrastructure along the countries’ shared border to cut logistics costs and address challenges.
Zhang Hanhui, Beijing’s ambassador to Moscow , said on Thursday that the two countries could explore cross-border transport corridors as major maritime logistics had been affected by sanctions.
“I have suggested to the Russian side that more convenient crossings should be built along the China-Russia border, such as cross-river bridges,” Zhang said on the sidelines of the “two sessions” , the annual meetings of China’s top legislature and top political advisory body.
“There are still some boundary rivers where bridges could be built. For instance, on the Ussuri River, a bridge could also be constructed near Raohe,” he said, referring to a border county in the eastern part of Heilongjiang province.
Zhang mentioned two bridges connecting China and Russia , and highlighted the need for more efforts in cross-border infrastructure.
One of them is a railway bridge connecting the countries across the Heilong (Amur) River from Tongjiang in China to Nizhneleninskoye in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast.