The first cross-river railway bridge between China and Russia has been completed. The bridge is 2,215 meters (7,300 feet) long and has been seven years in the making.
A new bridge that will link Russia and China's railway systems was completed on August 17, 2021, seven years after its much-heralded groundbreaking.
The structure's full name is the China-Russia Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye Bridge. It connects Tongjiang, a city in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang province, with Nizhneleninskoye, a town across the border with Russia along the banks of the Amur River.This means that China's northeast railway network can now be connected with the Russian Siberian Railway.The bridge is 2,215 meters long and has been seven years in the making.
, designed by Dutch architects UNStudio. When complete, it will be able to ferry tourists from one side to the other in less than eight minutes. The new railway bridge connects Nizhneleninskoye in Russia with the border city of Tongjiang in Heilongjiang.The Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye Bridge is the latest project completed under China's ambitious Belt and Road initiative, which aims to, among other things, connect Eurasia through infrastructure.
According to China National Radio, with the completion of the bridge, the railway transportation distance from China's Heilongjiang province to Moscow via Tongjiang will be shortened by 809 kilometers , cutting 10 hours of transportation time. The bridge can reportedly handle 21 million metric tons of cargo per year.
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