{"id":78813,"date":"2022-06-11T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=78813"},"modified":"2022-06-11T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T14:30:54","slug":"russia-china-unveil-first-road-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=78813","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China unveil first road bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> Russia and China on Friday unveiled the first road bridge between the two countries as Moscow pivots to Asia amid its confrontation with the West over Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The kilometre-long bridge over the Amur River links the far eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk with Heihe in northern China.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The construction of the bridge was completed two years ago but its inauguration was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u00a0During a ceremony in Blagoveshchensk on Friday, the bridge opened to freight traffic, with the passage of the first trucks greeted by fireworks.<\/p>\n

Consisting of two traffic lanes, the bridge cost around 19 billion rubles ($328 million), according to official figures.<\/p>\n

Once bitter foes during the Cold War, Moscow and Beijing have over the past years ramped up political and economic cooperation as both are driven by a desire to counterbalance what they see as US global dominance.<\/p>\n

Trade between Russia and China, which share a 4,250-kilometre border, has flourished since the normalisation of relations between the two giants in the late 1980s, but has always come up against the region's lack of transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: Russia and China on Friday unveiled the first road bridge between the two countries as Moscow pivots to Asia amid its confrontation with the West over Ukraine. The kilometre-long bridge over the Amur River links the far eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk with Heihe in northern China. \u00a0The construction of the bridge was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":78814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n