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China plans rail lines along Russian, DPRK borders

According to a report from Hong Kong-based Wen Wai Po, construction of Dongbiandao Railway, another "golden channel" to the sea in the northeast region, will begin this year.


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According to a report from Hong Kong-based Wen Wai Po, construction of Dongbiandao Railway, another "golden channel" to the sea in the northeast region, will begin this year.

Running from north to south along Sino-Russian and Sino-Korean borders, the 1,380-kilometer Dongbiandao railway, extending from Suifenhe in Mudanjiang city of Heilongjiang Province in the north, passing Tumen and Tonghua of Jilin Province, and Benxi, Dandong and Zhuanghe of Liaoning Province, reaches Dalian in the south. Most of the places the railway runs through are very rich in natural resources, but relatively backward in their economies at the present time.

Going deep into the heart of the Northeastern Economic Zone and connecting more than 10 cities and 30 counties in the eastern part of northeast China, with an area radiating up to 220, 000 square kilometers and a population of 18 million, the railway will serve as a "major sea-land channel" that links Dandong and Dalian to the sea. Via the railway cargos from Shenyang, a city situated in Central Liaoning Province, can first be transported to Dandong, where they can be rapidly shipped to the neighboring countries to the East, thus changing the present state in which Shenyang has "difficulties in linking itself with neighboring countries and in going to sea" and "having slow access to the sea", and immeasurably accelerating the development of import and export trade.

By People's Daily Online


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