A new international gas pipeline and bridge between Russia and China are hoped not only to boost bilateral trade, but also to transform the economic outlook of the East amid tensions with the West.
While Russian and Chinese interests were far from entirely aligned and even at times at odds, they have continued to pursue win-win endeavors. Just days before the"Power of Siberia" pipeline was inaugurated, the two countries oversaw the completion of a roadway bridge over the Amur River connecting Russia's Blagoveshchensk and China's Heihe.
He called the bridge"a project that fundamentally changes the usual picture and, of course, contains a huge impetus for development in general for changing the structure of the region's economy, the entire Far East." Amur Region Governor Vasily Orlov described it as"a new international transport corridor."
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