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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Vladivostok, November 15 (Xinhua) — Russian experts recently praised the Russian government's plan to build logistics centers on the border with China and North Korea in an interview with Xinhua.
On November 1, a list of instructions following this year's Eastern Economic Forum, approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was published on the Kremlin website. The list calls for measures to ensure the development of multimodal transport and logistics centers in the Far Eastern Federal District and improve their efficiency, including at the Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang and Blagoveshchensk-Heihe railway bridge crossings, as well as the bridge under construction across the Tumannaya River (towards North Korea), ensuring its operation begins in 2026 and that access roads to the bridge under construction are brought up to standard.
Artem Lukin, Professor of the Department of International Relations at the Far Eastern Federal University's Institute of Oriental Studies, said that President Vladimir Putin's order to build multimodal transport and logistics hubs in the Far East is entirely logical, as Russia has been pursuing a consistent policy of expanding and deepening economic cooperation with its closest neighbors in Northeast Asia—China and North Korea. Full-fledged cooperation is impossible without a developed transport infrastructure, which, among other things, requires the creation of multimodal transport and logistics hubs.
According to A. Lukin, priority attention is being given to the creation of transport and logistics hubs near two cross-border bridges across the Amur River—Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang and Blagoveshchensk-Heihe. Russian authorities want to accelerate the development of transport and logistics infrastructure (access roads, warehouses, transshipment centers, etc.) on the border with China, including to maximize the efficiency of the bridges across the Amur River, which were already built several years ago. The necessary infrastructure has already been created on the Chinese side, but Russia is still lagging behind.
A. Lukin indicated that Moscow wants to expedite the construction of a road bridge between Russia and the DPRK across the Tumannaya River, which is scheduled to be operational next year. Its significance lies in the fact that it will be the first road bridge between Russia and the DPRK. Until now, land transport between the two countries relied on only one railway bridge across the Tumannaya River, which is clearly becoming insufficient given the growing cooperation between Russia and the DPRK.
Emphasizing that the West's short-sighted sanctions policy has already led to a redistribution of global trade routes, Alexey Mikhalev, professor at the Department of International Relations at the Far Eastern Federal University's Institute of Oriental Studies, pointed out that while the processes underway in Russia are often referred to as a "pivot to the East," this partnership has deep roots and is oriented toward the long term.
A prime example of such a strategy, according to the expert, are plans to create logistics hubs in Blagoveshchensk and Nizhneleninsky. These measures are aimed not only at increasing trade turnover but also at improving the entire logistics system to avoid overloading railway lines, he added.
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