james Moscow: Russia and China on Friday launched the first road bridge between the two countries when Moscow spun to Asia in the middle of its confrontation with the West above Ukraine.
The bridge along the kilometer above the Amur River connects the City of Blagoveshchensk Eastern Russia with Heihe in North China.
The bridge construction was completed two years ago but his inauguration was postponed due to Pandemi Coronavirus.
During a ceremony at Blagueshchensk on Friday, the bridge was opened for shipping traffic, with the first truck trip welcomed by fireworks.
Consists of two traffic lanes, the bridge fee is around 19 billion rubles ($ 328 million), according to an official figure.
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Once the bitter enemy during the Cold War, Moscow and Beijing for the past few years have increased political and economic cooperation because both of them were driven by the desire to compensate for what they saw as global dominance.
The trade between Russia and China, which has a border of 4,250 kilometers, has developed since the normalization of the relationship between two giants in the late 1980s, but always contrary to the lack of transportation infrastructure in the region.
