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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, November 17 (Xinhua) — Heihe City in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province recently held a presentation in the eastern Chinese metropolis of Shanghai on its potential to promote China's opening up to the north, the Heilongjiang Daily reported on Monday.
The presentation, titled "Together Building a New Height of China's Northern Opening and Sharing New Opportunities for Cross-Border Cooperation," was attended by representatives of approximately 100 companies and chambers of commerce from across the country.
Participants discussed how to highlight the role of Heihe City, a strategic platform for China's northern opening-up, in promoting high-quality cross-border industry development amid the ongoing development of Sino-Russian relations and the deepening implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Ji Wei, Director of the Heihe Economic Cooperation Promotion Office, noted in his speech that Heihe, which borders the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, is one of the first open border cities in China and enjoys extensive government support in the form of policies developed for pilot free trade zones, comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, and cities where measures have been experimentally introduced to promote the prosperity of border areas and improve the well-being of local residents.
As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) deepen their alignment, Heihe's cooperation opportunities in energy resources, agricultural processing, and cross-border logistics have expanded further.
In the energy sector, the city of Heihe has built cross-border power lines that allow it to import 8 billion kWh of electricity from Russia annually. Furthermore, the eastern route of the China-Russia gas pipeline passes through the city.
Regarding agricultural processing, in February 2025, the Heihe Highway Port was officially designated as the designated import control point for meat and chilled aquatic products. Capitalizing on the high-quality meat and cold-water fish resources of the Russian Far East, Heihe aims to become a "key hub in Northeast Asia" for the processing of meat and chilled aquatic products.
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